Abstract
This chapter discusses the rediscovery of Mendelism. Mendel's paper on his hybridization experiments with the garden pea, published in 1866, remained unnoticed by the scientific world until 1900. During these intervening 34 years, many developments in biological science occurred and prepared the way for the rediscovery of Mendel's law of segregation. In 1866, a book General Morphology was published that stated that the nucleus was that a part of the cell that was responsible for heredity. In 1870s, aniline dyes, oil immersion lenses, and condensers were developed. With their aid, botanists and zoologists in Germany began to study the chromosomes and their behaviour; they observed that in respect of their number there was a constancy that strongly suggested that they formed the basis of heredity and development.
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