Particulate inheritance: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:39, 19 March 2023

Latest revision as of 05:18, 10 August 2025

(One intermediate revision by one other user not shown)

Line 1:

{{Short description|Pattern of inheritance in evolutionary biology}}

[[File:Gregor_Mendel.jpg|thumb|[[Gregor Mendel]], the Father of Genetics]]

[[File:William Bateson.jpg|upright|thumb|[[William Bateson]]]]

[[File:Youngronaldfisher2.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Ronald Fisher]]]]

'''Particulate inheritance''' is a pattern of inheritance discovered by [[Mendelian genetics]] theorists, such as [[William Bateson]], [[Ronald Fisher]] or [[Gregor Mendel]] himself, showing that [[phenotypic trait]]s can be passed from generation to generation through "discrete particles" known as [[genes]], which can keep their ability to be expressed while not always appearing in a descending generation.<ref>[http://www.webref.org/anthropology/p/particulate_theory_of_inheritanc.htm "Particulate theory of inheritance"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160518143433/http://www.webref.org/anthropology/p/particulate_theory_of_inheritanc.htm |date=2016-05-18 }}, WebRef</ref>

== Scientific developments leading up to the theory ==