The answer to that question is no, but many organisms do indeed show inheritance patterns similar to the seminal ones described by Mendel in the pea. In fact, the three principles of inheritance ...

Mitochondria also contain DNA, and they show similar patterns of uniparental and biparental inheritance. In fact, because most animals lack chloroplasts, the main form of cytoplasmic inheritance ...

Are some fingerprint patterns more common than others? Extra: Toes also have ridge patterns. Do "toe prints" follow the same rules as fingerprints? This activity brought to you in partnership with ...

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 ...