Among those characteristics targeted for elimination from the human population were ... however, was that Mendel also observed many other traits in his plants that simply did not fit into defined ...

Another example of a trait that shows discontinuous variation is the human ABO blood antigen system. For years, followers of Mendel and Galton argued over whether the Mendelian theory or the ...

When scientists today work to decode the human genome ... pea plants to see how a few specific traits -- height was one -- were passed down. When Mendel bred a tall plant to a short one, all ...

"PTC perception is arguably one of the most studied human traits," says Sun-Wei Guo ... "PTC tasting was considered a Mendelian trait for 50 years. Only in the past 25 years has this model begun to ...