Mendelian inheritance

Mendelian inheritance is the pattern of how traits pass from parents to offspring through genes, discovered by scientist Gregor Mendel when he studied pea plants in the 1860s. He found that certain traits follow predictable rules: for example, if both parents carry a gene for a particular characteristic, their children have a specific mathematical chance of inheriting it. These fundamental rules explain why children might have their mother's eye color or their father's height, and they form the foundation of modern genetics.