MEDICINE & HEALTH

Laboratory, Analysis, Chemistry

Four Fascinating Questions Genetic Research Could Answer

You'd think genetic research would be the stuff of the future, but some trace it back to an Austrian monk in the 1860s, who established hereditary traits being passed between generations of pea plants. The discovery of the double helix in 1953 and the progress of the human genome project at the cusp of the 21st century moved things along, but really, people are still mostly doing the same thing. What traits get passed down, how, and why?

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