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Mendelian inheritance: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Mendelism

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Illustration showing three edible pea plants: pink flowers on the left, white flowers on the right, and a hybrid with both colors in the center, demonstrating Mendelian inheritance.
Mendel's law of segregation
Mendel's law of independent assortment
Diagram illustrating sex-linked inheritance of white and red eye color in Drosophila fruit flies, showing genetic crosses between white-eyed and red-eyed males and females, with chromosomes and resulting eye color traits mapped through two generations.
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Key People

Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
botanist
Bateson, William
William Bateson
British biologist
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Hugo de Vries
Dutch botanist and geneticist
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Victor McKusick
American physician and genome researcher
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Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg
Austrian botanist
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Carl Erich Correns
German botanist