Abbey ambitions to celebrate home of genetics
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A century and a half after the ground-breaking work by Gregor Mendel in establishing the foundation of genetics, efforts are under way to develop a fitting commemoration of his work at his abbey home in Brno. Nigel Williams reports.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002