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When I was young my mother would ask me to help h

Posted on October 06, 2008

When I was young my mother would ask me to help her pollinate some of her prized orchids. She would name them var X var and the new plant would be slightly different than the one it came from. Little did I know that I was being introduced to genetics.When I got into high school Biology and fell in love with the Punnett square, the rest was history. I pursued Mendel and trained with the leading scientist /adviser in plant breeding in the Philippines, the same professor who trained my mother in college. It was exciting to study the chromosomes of ancient corn species, and later to find th...

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