{"id":8396,"date":"2019-05-22T16:07:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/mendelian_genetics\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:07:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:15","slug":"mendelian_genetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/mendelian_genetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mendelian genetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theory of inheritance originally outlined by <a href=\"http:\/\/anthro.palomar.edu\/mendel\/mendel_1.htm\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/anthro.palomar.edu\/mendel\/mendel_1.htm&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gregor Mendel <\/a>(1822-1884) in 1866 and formulated in two laws. &nbsp;The law of segregation states that each hereditary characteristic is controlled by two factors (now referred to as alleles) that segregate and pass into separate reproductive (or germ) cells. &nbsp;The law of independent assortment holds that pairs of factors segregate independently of each other when reproductive cells are formed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"allele\">Allele<\/a>, <a href=\"cytoplasm\">Cytoplasm<\/a>, <a href=\"darwinism\">Darwinism<\/a>, <a href=\"hereditary\">Hereditary<\/a>, <a href=\"modern_synthesis\">Modern synthesis<\/a>, <a href=\"neo-darwinism\">Neo-Darwinism<\/a>, <a href=\"polygenic_mode_of_inheritance\">Polygenic mode of inheritance<\/a>, <a href=\"recapitulation_theory_-or_biogenetic_law-\">Recapitulation theory (or biogenetic law)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theory of inheritance originally outlined by Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) in 1866 and formulated in two laws. &nbsp;The law of segregation states that each hereditary characteristic is controlled by two factors (now referred to as alleles) that segregate and pass into separate reproductive (or germ) cells. &nbsp;The law of independent assortment holds that pairs of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/mendelian_genetics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mendelian genetics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}