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Mendelian genetics [men′dēl·yən jə′ned·iks] (genetics) Scientific study of the role of the nuclear genome in heredity, as opposed to cytoplasmic inheritance. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| MOUSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR As early as the 1940s, researchers who couldn't explain some of an organism's attributes by straightforward Mendelian genetics started calling these aberrant traits epigenetic, says Randy Jirtle, a researcher who studies gene control at Duke University in Durham, N. It was left for Sewall Wright and, most importantly, Motoo Kimura in the twentieth century to work out the population implications of Mendelian genetics. According to Mendelian genetics, neither child should have suffered ill effects because each got a normal and complete set of genetic material, albeit from only one parent. |
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