Men|del's laws

Men|del's laws
Men|del's laws «MEHN duhlz»,
the laws or principles governing the inheritance of certain characteristics by plants and animals, formulated by Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884), an Austrian monk and botanist, in experiments with peas. They state that each characteristic is inherited independently, that characteristics show dominant and recessive forms, and that successive generations of crossbred offspring exhibit inherited characteristics in different combinations, each combination in a specific proportion of individuals. »

Ideas of dominance, and of independent units, together with a third, usually referred to as segregation, have come to be called Mendel's Laws (Fred W. Emerson).


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