In 1906, a descendant of Paul Revere named Clarence Cook Little was pursuing studies in the new discipline of genetics while attending Harvard University. One of his professors challenged him to do a project on the inheritance of coat color in mice. As part of the effort, Little mated brothers to sisters and created the very first inbred strains of mice.
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