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6 years ago
Mendel's insights started with his approach of analyzing discrete traits, leading to the idea of particulate rather than blending inheritance.
 
  Yet this was an uncommon way to view the inheritance of traits because many found it counterintuitive or contrary to experience. How so?
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Experience with breeding pets or livestock, or even having children, suggests that parental traits seem to blend together in the offspring. This is because most traits that breeders considered are complex, polygenic traits. By focusing on simple discrete traits, Mendel was able to show that his unit factors simply combined and recombined in pairs each generation and were not blended away.
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