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What does mendelian inheritance mean?


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Inheritance:

  1. The transmission of genetic information from one generation to the next generation is called inheritance.
  2. The genetic information is transferred in the form of traits or characters from parents to the offspring.

Mendelian inheritance:

  1. Mendelian inheritance describes the traits that are passed from one generation to another in the form of genes.
  2. Mendelism or Mendel's laws were introduced by the Austrian monk Gregor Johann Mendel.
  3. Gregor Johann Mendel is known as the "father of genetics" for his great efforts to explain Mendel's laws.
  4. Mendelian inheritance refers to the theory of inheritance including three laws of dominance, segregation, and independent assortment.

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