Mendelian inheritance

<p>Mendelian inheritance (also known as Mendelism) is a type of <a href="/facts/Biology/1M1ee3pB">biological</a> <a href="/facts/Heredity/t0aMmRWx">inheritance</a> following the principles originally proposed by <a href="/facts/Gregor_Mendel/4UpILWAz">Gregor Mendel</a> in 1865 and 1866, re-discovered in 1900 by <a href="/facts/Hugo_de_Vries/zdB9UUs2">Hugo de Vries</a> and <a href="/facts/Carl_Correns/tlAu9qeK">Carl Correns</a>, and later popularized by <a href="/facts/William_Bateson/vx1g3kgg">William Bateson</a>. These principles were initially controversial. When Mendel's theories were integrated with the <a href="/facts/Boveri%E2%80%93Sutton_chromosome_theory/sXfg8KsS">Boveri–Sutton chromosome theory</a> of inheritance by <a href="/facts/Thomas_Hunt_Morgan/4wswVmWC">Thomas Hunt Morgan</a> in 1915, they became the core of <a href="/facts/Classical_genetics/SwtEeqBW">classical genetics</a>. <a href="/facts/Ronald_Fisher/I2FVIpy9">Ronald Fisher</a> combined these ideas with the theory of <a href="/facts/Natural_selection/JXTte6en">natural selection</a> in his 1930 book <i><a href="/facts/The_Genetical_Theory_of_Natural_Selection/Yd1SaDln">The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection</a></i>, putting <a href="/facts/Evolution/Hj0qAaBk">evolution</a> onto a <a href="/facts/Mathematics/pxTouaz4">mathematical</a> footing and forming the basis for <a href="/facts/Population_genetics/v55qAnKu">population genetics</a> within the <a href="/facts/Modern_synthesis_(20th_century)/anJdPq34">modern evolutionary synthesis</a>.
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Mendelian inheritance