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MENDEL'S LAW

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MENDEL'S LAW (noun)
  The noun MENDEL'S LAW has 1 sense:

1. (genetics) one of two principles of heredity formulated by Gregor Mendel on the basis of his experiments with plants; the principles were limited and modified by subsequent genetic research

  Familiarity information: MENDEL'S LAW used as a noun is very rare.


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MENDEL'S LAW (noun)


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Meaning:

(genetics) one of two principles of heredity formulated by Gregor Mendel on the basis of his experiments with plants; the principles were limited and modified by subsequent genetic research

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Mendel's law" is a kind of...):

law; law of nature (a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature)

Domain category:

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Mendel's law"):

law of segregation (members of a pair of homologous chromosomes separate during the formation of gametes and are distributed to different gametes so that every gamete receives only one member of the pair)

law of independent assortment (each member of a pair of homologous chromosomes separates independently of the members of other pairs so the results are random)


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