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 Oh Biology, sweet, sweet Biology. How fun you are with many similar sounding processes, e.g. meiosis and mitosis. I've had good times in Biology and learned a lot. Right now we are studying genes. Genes are how the traits of an organism are expressed in the organism as a whole. These traits come from the parents who both have different traits. The traits combine in various ways which gives us the diversity of organisms which inhabit this earth. The two gametes, or sex cells, of the parents come from the recessive and dominant traits which they have in they're DNA. This means that parents can pass on a trait that they don't necessarily show. This is what makes genetics so interesting. Well, anyway, Gregor Mendel thought so and his curiosity and later his discoveries have earned him the name "Father of Genetics." His one principle, "Principle of Independent Assortment" is very popular and is the authority in modern genetics. Another genealogist, Thomas Morgan, expanded on Mendel's ideas to figure out that during meiosis the two chromosomes could switch genes and therefore end up with two new chromosomes all together. All these have combined to create the field of genealogy that is still studied today. While, some things are still unknown this study has been greatly defined by the work of scientists in the past and hopefully will be expanded on by scientists of the future.