Blending inheritance would quickly erode such variation ... which helped give rise to the modern field of genetics. Mendel’s Law of Segregation, in modern terms, states that a diploid individual ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey ...

"may constitute the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity." With these words, Sutton first articulated what is now known as the chromosome theory of inheritance. Confirming the ...