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The Mendelian Model of Inheritance
Mendel worked out his laws of inheritance in a monastery garden in the late 1800s. Without knowing about the complexities of meiosis and diploid organisms, Mendel developed laws about gene inheritance that are as fundamental to genetics as the laws of gravity are to physics.
In this Lesson, we'll learn about Mendels basic principles of inheritance. Well explore the breeding experiments that Mendel performed with pea plants, and well use statistical analysis to understand the probabilities involved in Mendelian inheritance.
Well also discover how Mendels laws can be applied to predict the inheritance of human traits today.