The field of genetics was born with Gregor Mendel's work on inheritance of discrete traits in Pisum Sativum. While most of the characteristics that we inherit from our parents are encoded by ...

Encoded in that DNA are genes – instructions on ... like their moms and grandmas, and that traits like grey hair showed up after somebody made kids, but still made it into the next generation.

Human development is influenced by, but not entirely determined by, our parents and our genes. Children may ... should pay attention to their children's distinct traits and the pace of their ...

In this family tree, the father in the first generation shows a particular trait (as indicated by the black square), but none of the children ... of genetic traits before genes were even discovered.