Mendel attempted to generalize his findings into laws, which governed inheritance of genes in organisms that have two copies of them. Germ cells obey the law of segregation, in that they only ...

"Laws are descriptions — often mathematical descriptions — of natural phenomena for example, Newton's Law of Gravity or Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment. These laws simply describe the ...

he came up with three vital concepts that are known today as Mendel's laws of inheritance. First there is the law of dominance and uniformity, which holds that alleles (alternative forms of genes ...

In his own words, the goal of Mendel's research was "a generally applicable law governing the formation and development of hybrids." To that end, he spent 9 years crossbreeding over 28,000 pea ...

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According to Mendel's laws of genetic inheritance, the combination of normal and mutant Kit genes should alone determine whether the mouse has a spotted or unspotted tail. But scientists at the ...