The term that collectively refers to the three principles described by Gregor Mendel that together summarize his extensive experiments studying the patterns of heredity for acquired characteristics.

Gregor Mendel's principles of inheritance form the cornerstone of modern genetics. So just what are they? When looking at the figure, notice that for each F 1 plant, the self-fertilization ...

The second law (the law of independent assortment) states that allele pairs for each trait occur independently of one another. Mendel published two papers describing his research; however the ...

"Mendel discovered what we now call the laws of inheritance without knowing what a gene was," said one of the lead authors of the study, Professor Shifeng Cheng of the CAAS Agricultural Genomics ...

Mendel's work led to the discovery of genetic inheritance and the laws of segregation and independent assortment. While most of the genes behind his seven trait pairs — such as round vs wrinkled ...

Phenotypic diversity in the seven traits of pea plants. [Photo provided to China Daily] A team of international scientists, mainly from China and the United Kingdom, has jointly identified the ...