Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

Inheritance is the passing of traits from parents to offspring. Our modern understanding of inheritance comes from a set of principles proposed by Austrian monk and researcher Gregor Mendel in 1865.

Basic concepts in quantitative genetics, including Mendelian genetics, gene action (additive, dominant, recessive), heritability, liability threshold model, means, variances, structure of DNA, types ...

THE increasing number of publications of recent years which deal with the subject of inheritance is testimony to the keen interest in the laws and principles of this science. Our knowledge of it ...