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What is a handicap in golf?

This refers to the number of strokes that a player can hit the ball in excess of the standard number (on normal fields 72) in order to equalize the performance of the fields. Of the two players, the strongest is the one who has the largest difference between his handicap and the number of strokes, naturally, the number of strokes must be less than the handicap.

Author: Mendeleev V.A.

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By what chance was Gregor Mendel deservedly recognized as the founder of the theory of heredity?

In the middle of the 1822th century, the Austrian monk and amateur botanist Gregor Mendel (1884-XNUMX) conducted experiments on crossing (through artificial pollination) plants of the same species (at first it was peas, later - beans) with different characteristics.

Mendel was interested in how, after crossing, such traits as the color of peas (green and yellow), their appearance (smooth and wrinkled), and the length of the plant stem (long and short) are transmitted to subsequent generations.

Within 8 years, Mendel made 355 experiments and received about 13 thousand mutant plants, carefully recording the results of observations, which allowed him to draw conclusions that we still call Mendel's laws. In 1863, he completed the experiments, carefully described their results, and sent a copy to the then highly respected German botanist Carl Wilhelm von Nägel.

The professor considered the conclusions of an unknown amateur, moreover, obtained on the basis of a simple count of plants, not worthy of attention and gave them a negative review. In 1866, Mendel published the results of his research in one of the provincial Austrian journals, but this publication did not attract the attention of his contemporaries either. The double failure discouraged Mendel, and he returned to his monastic duties, abandoning his studies.

The name of Mendel and his achievements would probably have remained unknown to posterity if one of the most amazing cases in the history of science had not occurred three decades later. In the same year, at least three people - the Dutchman Hugo de Vries, the German Carl Erich Correns, and the Austrian Erich von Tschermak - independently arrived at the same conclusions as Mendel.

Not being familiar with each other or with the works of Mendel, all three prepared materials for publication in 1900; all three, while working with literature on this topic, to their great surprise, came across Mendel's article; all three published their materials in the same 1900 year. And all three referred to the publication of Mendel, thereby giving him the palm and relegating their work to the rank of only confirming the discovery made earlier.

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