... from it such as leaf shape or plant size. These offspring would then occasionally pass these traits to their offspring. Ignoring that these traits observed in the primrose usually were from aberrant chromosomal segregations and not mutation, de Vries certainly had the right idea. Although he did not know of Mendel's work, when he published his work in 1990, he concluded with identical results. When he first published his work in French, it did not credit Mendel; however, this was later amended in his German publication. In Munich Germany, Carl Erich Correns (1864-1933) entered the University of Munich in 1885. With the help of Nageli, Correns interests in botany and the study of genetic traits grew. From Nageli, Correns knew about Mendel's hawkweed plant experiments; however, he never learned of Mendel's principal pea plant experiments. By 1990; however, he became aware of Mendel's conclusions and acknowledged Mendel in the publishing ...

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