mar 14, 1900 - Botanist Hugo de Vries submits a paper to the German journal Comptes Rendus, outlining a rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity.

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Both de Vries and German botanist Carl Correns have been working independently of each other in 1900 and found Gregor Mendel's 1865 paper on genetics. Correns' paper was completed is April 22. Wrote De Vries, "I draw the conclusion that the law of segregation of hybrids as discovered by Mendel for peas finds very general application in the plant kingdom ... This memoir, very beautiful for its time, has been misunderstood and forgotten."

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