Fascinated by plant hybridization, he began experimenting in the Abbey garden with pea plants.

由于对植物杂交十分着迷，他开始在修道院的花园里用豌豆做实验。

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Mendel decided that pea plants carried factors, and parents passed these factors onto their offspring.

他断定，豌豆植物带有遗传因子，父辈植物将这些因子传给子代植物。

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Gregor Mendel, an Austrian monk, discovered that in pea plants inheritance of individual traits followed patterns.

格里高孟德尔，一个奥地利僧侣，他发现在豌豆植物中，他们的个体特征遗传是按这个模式来的。

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He studied the characteristics of pea plants.

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Lead author Michael Dunn, an evolutionary linguist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands, said the approach is akin to the study of pea plants by Gregor Mendel, which ultimately led to the idea of heritability of traits.

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