Mendelian inheritance

Mendelian inheritance (or Mendelian genetics or Mendelism) is a set of primary tenets that underlie much of genetics developed by Gregor Mendel in the latter part of the 19th century.

Mendelian inheritance (or Mendelian genetics or Mendelism) is a set of primary tenets relating to the transmission of hereditary characteristics from parent organisms to their children; it underlies much of genetics.

Mendelian Inheritance
Mendelian inheritance refers to patterns of inheritance that are characteristic of organisms that reproduce sexually.

Mendelian inheritance One method in which genetic traits are passed from parents to offspring. Named for Gregor Mendel, who first studied and recognized the existence of genes and this method of inheritance.

Human Mendelian Inheritance
Humans have 46 chromosomes in every cell in their bodies, 23 from their mother and 23 from their father. However we have 24 different chromosomes or linkage groups.

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) is a large, searchable, up-to-date database of human genes, genetic traits, and disorders.

The term coined by Bateson and Saunders (1902) for characters which are alternative to one another in Mendelian inheritance (Gk. Allelon, one another; morphe, form).

Monohybrid Cross Learn about the basic principles that govern Mendelian inheritance in plants and animals.
Dihybrid Cross Investigate the principles that govern inheritance of different traits in a dihybrid cross.

Bateson reported a different phenotypic ratio in sweet pea than could be explained by simple Mendelian inheritance. This ratio is 9:7 instead of the 9:3:3:1 one would expect of a dihybrid cross between heterozygotes.

Extra-chromosomal inheritance: Non-Mendelian inheritance due to extra-nuclear DNA (mitochondrial DNA in animals). The transmission of the trait only occurs from mothers.

Mutations provided answers to problems of the appearance of novel adaptations. The patterns of Mendelian inheritance explained the perseverance of rare traits in organisms, all of which increased variation, ...

See also: Inheritance, Mendel, Gene, Organ, Chromosome