Gregor Mendel · Science

The Laws of Inheritance

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.

What you'll be able to recall

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…

Leads to Charles Darwin.

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