As modern genetics developed, it became clear that this idea was quite wrong.
Mendel, who is known as the "father of modern genetics", was inspired to study variation in plants.
Tan was a main founder of modern Chinese genetics.
Since the rise of modern genetics, belief in this theory has grown.
He is considered the father of modern genetics.
Yet for all the triumphs of modern genetics, we know next to nothing about what makes us so.
A lot of it is being done by people who do not have a background in modern molecular genetics and developmental biology.
After his studies he worked at the university and became one of the founders of modern genetics in Czechoslovakia.
The school is where the foundation of modern genetics was discovered.
His "lightning overview" of modern genetics, however, is too brief to be enlightening.