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Mendelism: Connecting the Dots Across Centuries

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The year 2022 paid a bicentennial tribute to the phenomenal work of the father of Genetics, Gregor Johann Mendel for deciphering the genetic logic behind the phenotypes. His principles were distilled as the law of segregation and law of independent assortment. His work was rediscovered 34 yr later by H. De Vries, C. Correns, and E. Tschermak and popularized by W. Bateson. While C. Darwin accounted for similarities among organisms through the differences in the form of evolution, G. Mendel accounted for similarities through heredity; the ideological gaps were bridged mathematically by R. Fisher. Later with the test of time, the interaction among researchers paved Mendelian principles into different branches of genetics viz., cytogenetics, molecular genetics, population genetics, quantitative genetics, etc. At present we have landed in the era of genomics and the emerging field of phenomics which have potential to bridge the huge gap between demand and supply in different agro-industrial and allied goods. The need to connect the budding researchers in the field of genetics with Mendelism and its significance, catalyzed our concentrated effort to link Mendelism across the centuries, highlighting its importance and extrapolating the concept of heredity and variation from garden peas to different life forms. In conclusion, as our knowledge on genetics deepens, more insights on underlying mechanisms and subsequent applications will be witnessed.

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