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Mendel was the first scientist to describe the concept of diploidythe idea that organisms like pea plants and humans possess two complete sets of genetic material. Summarize Mendel's observations and the reasoning that led him to this conclusion.
 
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The F1 and F2 phenotypic ratios that Mendel observed in different crosses led him to conjecture that each parent contributes one version of a unit factor for each trait during reproduction. Each individual thus possesses two such factors (diploidy), and it is combinations of unit factors that constitute the genotype.
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