See the article Chicken - Checking Doneness for additional information on cooking times for chicken and for other methods used in determining the proper doneness of chicken meat.
Father of Genetics. Gregor Mendel, through his work on pea plants, discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent. Mendel tracked the segregation of parental genes and their appearance in the offspring as dominant or recessive traits.
1 1909 - The term gene is first used and the chemical composition of DNA is discovered. 2  1920 - Chromosomes are proposed as the mechanism by which inherited characteristics are passed on. 3  1944 - DNA is first connected to the inheritance of traits.