Laws of Heredity* is an educational film that demonstrates how inheritance operates in statistically predictable ways, presenting the foundational insights first achieved by Gregor Mendel.

Although lifestyle choices can lead to heart disease, there are certain diagnoses that are the product of genetics alone.

No one was sure how animals or plants passed down traits. And Darwin knew that the lack of an explanation for heredity left a big gap in his theory of natural selection. In one of the great ...

With every new advance in prenatal genetic screening, the ability to prevent suffering has also sparked difficult questions about what should count as “a disease” versus “a difference ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey ...

The chromosome theory of heredity, developed in 1902–1904, became one of the foundation stones of twentieth-century genetics. It is usually referred to as the Sutton–Boveri theory after Walter ...

39, No. 8, Nov., 1903 The Laws of Heredity of Galton and Mende... The Laws of Heredity of Galton and Mendel, and Some Laws Governing Race Improvement by Selection This is the metadata section. Skip to ...

As early as the 1860s, Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin began to explore possible mechanisms of heredity. Then, over the next few decades, Walther Flemming, Theodor Boveri, and Walter Sutton made ...

A gene is a fundamental unit of heredity, consisting of a specific sequence of DNA that encodes the instructions for making a particular protein or set of proteins. Genes are passed down from parents ...