This Special Issue celebrates Mendel’s 200th birthday by focusing on exceptions to the Mendelian ‘laws’. Discovery in science is often driven forward more by exceptions than by rules. In genetics, ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Contrary to inheritance laws the scientific world has accepted for more than 100 years, some plants revert to normal traits carried by their grandparents, bypassing genetic ...
A new wave of research challenges the century-old dominance of Mendelian genetics in classrooms, urging educators to embrace ...
Mendel solved the logic of inheritance in his monastery garden with no more technology than Darwin had in his garden at Down House. So why couldn't Darwin have done it too? A Journal of Biology ...
A new study suggests that the long-standing Mendelian view of genetics has some blind spots.
In 1857, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel began growing peas in the garden of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Mendel’s experiments would lead ...
On a cold, calm February night in 1865, the members of a little science society gathered in the town of Brünn, Austria, to hear a paper on inheritance in plants by an Augustinian monk from the nearby ...