Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 38, No. 18 (Jan., 1903), pp. 535-548 (14 pages) This item is openly available as part of an Open JSTOR ...

Even after many geneticists had accepted Mendel’s laws, confusion lingered regarding the maintenance of genetic variation in natural populations. Some opponents of the Mendelian view contended ...

Gregor Mendel, an Austrian scientist who lived and conducted much of his most important research in a Czechoslovakian monastery, established the basis of modern genetic science. He experimented on ...

"may constitute the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity." With these words, Sutton first articulated what is now known as the chromosome theory of inheritance. Confirming the ...

Mendelian randomization (MR) represents a valuable methodology to address the causal relationships between an exposure and an ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey ...

But Mendel’s laws of inheritance demonstrated that a trait could breed true for multiple generations, eventually becoming common in a population if it enabled survival. While Mendel posthumously ...

The term eugenics comes from the Greek roots for "good" and "generation" or "origin" and was first used to refer to the "science" of heredity ... the work of Gregor Mendel. Mendel had meticulously ...