The Pea-rfect Scientific Plot Twist

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The Pea-rfect Scientific Plot Twist

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The ultimate scientific plot twist! While Darwin was struggling to explain inheritance and facing skepticism from fellow biologists and religious opposition, Gregor Mendel swoops in like a genetic superhero with... peas. PEAS! The man literally revolutionized biology by obsessively counting wrinkly and smooth peas in his monastery garden. Darwin had the evolutionary framework but missed the inheritance mechanism, and then this monk shows up with the missing puzzle piece that Darwin needed all along. It's like discovering the universe's secrets in your vegetable garden! Genetics was born because someone really, REALLY paid attention to their vegetables.

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