Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

Among the major scientific discoveries, that of genetics has revolutionized our vision of the living world. Scientists now have access to the blueprints of many living beings, from the smallest ...

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 ...