Mendelian Genetics

• Mendelian postulates


  fundamental laws of inheritance
• Role of Unit Factors in Pairs

  genes come in a pair of alleles, one inherited from each parent
• Principle of Dominance and Recessiveness

  each pair of alleles has a dominant and recessive allele
• The Law of Segregation

  our chromosomes exchange alleles within the genes of the same kind
• The Law of Independent Assortment


  the inheritance of one trait or allele is not dependent on the heredity of another
• Gregor Johann Mendel is the father of genetics who laid the mathematical foundation of the science of genetics. Known for his experiment on peas