The basic principles of heredity were first worked out by:
A)Charles Darwin
B)Gregor Mendel
C)Carolus Linnaeus
D)Jean Lamarck

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Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian friar and scientist, conducted experiments on pea plants in the mid-19th century and deduced the basic principles of heredity, now known as the laws of Mendelian inheritance. Darwin formulated the theory of natural selection, Linnaeus developed the system of classification of organisms, and Lamarck proposed the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics, which has been largely discredited.

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