Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of ...

How we got from Gregor Mendel’s pea plants to modern genetics Philosopher Yafeng Shan explains how today's understanding of inheritance emerged from a muddle of ideas ...

Following that, students will participate in a hands-on activity reviewing basic Mendelian genetics and the difference between genotype and phenotype.

Long before genes, genomes and genetics were known, Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel established three principles of inheritance from his experiments on pea plants.

Basic Mendelian genetics therefore showed that Darwin's concept of natural selection is viable and also suggested that only fitness, not the mode of inheritance, needs to be considered when ...

Mendelian genetics has been the foundation of both crop hybridization and the understanding of basic cell mutations and trait inheritance.

In the era of Stalin, scientists needed to renounce Mendelian genetics, or face serious consequences.