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Mendelian adj.

(Biol.) Pert. to Mendel, or to Mendel's law; as, Mendelian inheritance.

(Biol.) Behaving or being in accordance with Mendel's laws of inheritance; said of the distribution of inherited characteristics and of traits thus distributed.

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Etymology of 'Mendelian'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... is cogent, we should be able to observe evolution going on at the present time, i.e. we should be able to observe the occurrence of variations and their transmission. This has actually been done by the geneticist in the study of mutations and Mendelian heredity, as the succeeding lectures ...

— A Critique of the Theory of Evolution • Thomas Hunt Morgan

... is called Mendelism (a term that will be explained in the next chapter), it has been found that great numbers of the "species" of the systematists or classificationists will not stand the physiological test of breeding, that is, they are found to breed freely together according to the Mendelian Law. ...

— Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation • George McCready Price

... moralise on the singular discrepancies of human life this state of the case will be fruitful of much profound speculation. The patriotic animus appears to be an enduring trait of human nature, an ancient heritage that has stood over unshorn from time immemorial, under the Mendelian rule of the stability of racial types. It is archaic, not amenable to elimination or enduring suppression, and apparently not appreciably to be mitigated by reflection, education, experience or ...

— An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation • Thorstein Veblen

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