mendelian

IPA: mˈɛndʌɫʌn

Root Word: Mendelian

(genetics) Of or relating to Gregor Mendel or his theories of genetics
Following Gregor Mendel's laws of intergenerational gene transmission.
Of or relating to Mendel's laws of gene transmission.
Alternative letter-case form of Mendelian [(genetics) Of or relating to Gregor Mendel or his theories of genetics]

Examples of "mendelian" in Sentences

Its more than just non-mendelian, its non-genetic.
The PSI+ prion trait is transmitted in a non-mendelian fashion.
That would invalidate the mendelian hypothesis, correct? darwinfinch
About 50% of Europeans and southern and central Africans and 10 to 15% of Asians are slow acetylators a mendelian recessive.
This suggests that wizarding ability is inherited in a mendelian fashion, with the wizard allele (W) being recessive to the muggle allele (M).
Not a few writers apparently think of patriotism as a fixed trait of the human organism, even as a kind of mendelian character unrelated to other social qualities.
Therefore, although the prion “option” is clearly subject to conventional Darwinian evolution, in the case of PSI+ natural selection is acting on a non-mendelian, non-genetically encoded trait.
These patients will include those with disorders of mendelian genetics, cytogenetics, contiguous gene deletions, dysmorphology, congenital malformations, multifactorial disorders, mental retardation and developmental disabilities.
If the parents have been typed, this follows from mendelian principles; otherwise the probability of DZ twins typing the same must be calculated for each possible parental mating and weighted by the probability of that mating calculated from population gene frequencies.