A new framework which reconciles the roles of behavioural genetics and cultural evolution in inheritance – and cuts through the nature/nurture debate – has been put forward by researchers at the ...

In the mid-19th century a monk called Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) studied the inheritance of different characteristics in pea plants. He also carried out work with flowers. Mendel discovered that when ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

Some variation is passed on via genes and some variation is the result of differences in the surroundings, or what an individual does. Types of variation Collecting data on the differences between ...