Gregor Mendel's principles of inheritance form the cornerstone of modern genetics. So just what are they? When looking at the figure, notice that for each F 1 plant, the self-fertilization resulted in ...

Why can you possess traits neither of your parents have? The relationship of genotype to phenotype is rarely as simple as the dominant and recessive patterns described by Mendel. As opposed to partial ...

Genetic crosses involving single genes (monohybrid inheritance) can be shown and examined using Punnett squares. The tall allele is dominant and is shown as T. The small allele is recessive and is ...