Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of ...

For more than a century, Mendelian genetics has shaped how we think about inheritance: one gene, one trait. It is a model that still echoes through textbooks—and one that is increasingly reaching its ...

A new study suggests that the long-standing Mendelian view of genetics has some blind spots.

For more than a century, heredity has been framed through the tidy logic of Mendel’s pea plants: traits pass from parent to ...