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2.7 outline the reasons why the importance of Mendel’s work was not recognised until some time after it was published

outline the reasons why the importance of Mendel’s work was not recognized until some time after it was published

Mendel began his work in 1858 and published the results of his experiments in 1866, but his work lay undiscovered until 1900 when others performed similar experiments. It was only then that the importance of his work was realized. It is unclear why such original work went unnoticed, perhaps: