When scientists today work to decode the human genome ... pea plants to see how a few specific traits -- height was one -- were passed down. When Mendel bred a tall plant to a short one, all ...

Among those characteristics targeted for elimination from the human population were ... however, was that Mendel also observed many other traits in his plants that simply did not fit into defined ...

Another example of a trait that shows discontinuous variation is the human ABO blood antigen system. For years, followers of Mendel and Galton argued over whether the Mendelian theory or the ...

Two recently published studies using the Mendelian randomization approach ... the SNPs in SHBG to be associated with SHBG levels in humans, the variants explained merely about 2% of the variance ...