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The Laws of Inheritance: A Journey from Mendel’s Abbey to Iceland

The Laws of Inheritance: A Journey from Mendel’s Abbey to Iceland

A living organism’s traits are controlled by its genes. The fundamental rules for how genes give rise to traits and how genes are inherited were established by Gregor Mendel. Mendel’s experiments uncovered the concepts of “dominance” and “recessive” and the independent segregation of genes. We now know that some traits and diseases are controlled by single genes (monogenic), whereas others are governed by several or even hundreds of...

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genetics, multigenic traits, Mendel, inheritance
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Date Added to MERLOT:
May 11, 2021
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May 11, 2021
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Juville Dario-Becker
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