Gregor Mendel · Science
How Mendel’s counting revealed two precise laws - dominance and segregation - that explain why traits hide and reappear, and why hereditary information is passed as discrete particles rather than blended like fluids.
You learned Mendel’s first laws: each trait is governed by paired hereditary units (alleles); one can be dominant and mask the other (recessive); and the pair separates so each offspring gets one unit from each parent (segregation), producing the famous 3-to-1 ratio. Explain in your own words why the reappearance of a…
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