In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...
The field of genetics was born with Gregor Mendel's work on inheritance of discrete traits in Pisum Sativum. While most of the characteristics that we inherit from our parents are encoded by multiple ...
IN 1865, an Austrian monk called Gregor Mendel, working to understand hybridisation, uncovered exquisitely simple and reliable patterns of inheritance in varieties of garden pea. In 1900, the patterns ...