How is Mendelian genetics still relevant today?

Mendelian genetics ,despite its simplicity, formed the basis for modern genetics. Even though Gregor Mendel’s model couldn’t describe other types of inheritance patterns such as incomplete dominance, epistasis, and codominance, it still accurately describes the allele behavior of several traits such as widow’s peak and genetically inherited diseases such as Tay Sach’s, Sickle Cell Anemia, and many more. read more

Mendel’s methodology established a prototype for genetics that is still used today for gene discovery and understanding the genetic properties of inheritance. How the gene idea became reality Mendel’s genes were only hypothetical entities, factors that could be inferred to exist in order to explain his results. read more

After 150 years, Mendelian genetics still unchallenged by biology Catherine Potenski | BioMed Central | March 10, 2015 Using the garden as a genetics laboratory, Gregor Mendel could manipulate and select for certain traits to formulate and test out his hypotheses about mechanisms of inheritance and distribution of traits in offspring. read more