The Laws of Inheritance: A Journey from Mendel’s Abbey to Iceland
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The Laws of Inheritance: A Journey from Mendel’s Abbey to Iceland
Instructional Resource
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 no…