Sentence examples for laws of heredity from inspiring English sources

We have deciphered the laws of heredity and the elegant structure of DNA.

More than 150 years after Mendel discovered the laws of heredity, the genetic architecture of phenotypic variation remains elusive.

In 1865 the basic laws of heredity were discovered by the father of modern genetics, Gregor Mendel.

Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity say that humans (and most other organisms) inherit two sets of genes unchanged, one from each parent.

The manuscript is the account by Gregor Mendel of the pea-breeding experiments from which he deduced the laws of heredity and laid the foundations of modern genetics.

Prior to their discovery, plant biologists over many decades had found odd exceptions to Mendel's laws of heredity, including some unexplained effects produced by injecting RNA, the less-well-known cousin of DNA, into plants.

The paper ended with the hypothesis that chromosomes carry the units of inheritance and that their behaviour during division of the chromosomes of sex cells (meiosis) is the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity.

Sutton concludes his analysis by explicitly stating that chromosomes "may constitute the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity".

In England, the Biometric school of Karl Pearson and Raphael Weldon were developing a quantitative approach that took Francis Galton "Law of ancestral heredity" as its point of departure.

I think of it as a law of nature, of heredity, a parental body; and of us, existing inside it, as its turbulent chromosomes alive with genes.

Following the establishment of Mendel's laws, the gene-chromosome theory of heredity was confirmed by the work of August Weismann who identified chromosomes as the hereditary material.