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19. The Austrian monk Gregor Mendel's observations of what organism formed the basis for the science of genetics?

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William & Mary professor Elizabeth Harbron displays vials with merocyanine and rhodamine dye in her lab in Williamsburg, Va.

pea plants

fruit flies

tulips

mice

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