This kind of AD inheritance is like that of quintessential genetic diseases, such as hemophilia, or classic traits of textbook genetics, such as the color of Gregor Mendel's garden peas. The familial ...

Standing on the shoulders of Darwin and Mendel : early views of inheritance / by David J. Galton Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...

The Declaration of Independence’s promise of equality has had ongoing challenges, but it is our American inheritance.

Thus the statistical laws of inheritance of human stature are known, though we have no idea, for example, how many genes are concerned in the process.

Gregor Mendel was a 19th century monk who liked to tinker in his garden. He bred generations of pea plants and meticulously kept track of each plant’s traits from size to color to seed shape.