DNA makes RNA, RNA makes protein, protein makes phenotype—was the guiding framework for understanding inheritance and disease ...

The consistent expression of Mendelian traits in both mice and humans is the exception rather than the rule. Many biological aspects of a trait can vary and for different reasons. However, one ...

For the past century, Mendelian and multifactorial traits have existed at opposite ends of the disease spectrum in humans. Furthermore, the recent emphasis on genome-wide association studies for ...

During Mendel’s time, it was believed that the trait that would appear in the offspring was the result of mixing and merging between the parents’ traits.

But for some reason this is one of the “myths” about genetics that gets spread around in high school, where it is used as an example of a simple Mendelian trait with a simple dominant ...

The traits that Mendel chose to measure in plants had relatively simple genetics in terms of the one-to-one relationship of genes to outward physical characters.

Genetic diseases and genetically mixed populations can help researchers understand human diversity and human origins according to a physical anthropologist.

Quill: In biology classes, we learn that Gregor Mendel’s experiments breeding pea plants in the mid-19th century taught us that inherited traits are delivered to offspring on pairs of genes, one ...

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 ...

However, variation that occur in genes that are involved in Mendelian traits and in those that affect genes essential to the proper functioning of the cell tend to be much older." ...

Why did some humans develop the ability to curl their tongues, but not all of them? This question was originally answered on Quora by Adriana Heguy.