Are Mendel's inheritance laws flawed?

Mendel's laws are valid for all sexually reproducing organisms, including garden peas and human beings. However, Mendel's laws stop short of explaining some patterns of genetic inheritance. For most sexually reproducing organisms, cases where Mendel's laws can strictly account for the patterns of inheritance are relatively rare. read more

It has been known for some time that the principles of heredity which were advocated by Mendel have many exceptions and because of that it is not always possible to apply the Mendelian principles for determining the inheritance pattern of all the traits or genes in an organism. read more

Mendel's Law May Be Flawed Challenging a scientific law of inheritance that has stood for 150 years, scientists say plants sometimes select better bits of DNA in order to develop normally even when their predecessors carried genetic flaws. read more