Inheritance, Extranuclear
Less than a decade after the rediscovery of Mendel's laws describing the inheritance of genes in the nucleus, hereditary traits were discovered that obey a different s...
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Inheritance Patterns
Inheritance patterns are the predictable patterns seen in the transmission of genes from one generation to the next, and their expression in the organism that possesses them. (A g...
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Maternal Inheritance
Maternal inheritance is a type of uniparental inheritance in which all the progeny of a mating inherit the genotype and phenotype of the female parent. It is an extreme form of no...
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Non-Mendelian Inheritance
Gregor Mendel was fortunate to have chosen some of the most genetically simple of characters in the garden pea for his seminal experiments that laid the foundation for the sc...
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Variation of Inherited Characteristics
Although there are characteristics whose inheritance adheres strictly to Mendel's predictions, more often than not, that is not the case. Many different mechanis...
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Inheritance, Extranuclear
Maternal Inheritance