The chief landmark in the history of genetics is most likely the work of Gregor Mendel on pea plants in the 19th century, which later was translated to the concept of Mendelian inheritance in medical ...

Inheritance is the passing of traits from parents to offspring. Our modern understanding of inheritance comes from a set of principles proposed by Austrian monk and researcher Gregor Mendel in 1865.

Genetics is the study of how heritable traits are transmitted from parents to offspring. Humans have long observed that traits tend to be similar in families. It wasn’t until the mid-nineteenth ...