Biology GCSE
mendelian inheritance
What mendelian inheritance means in Biology GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of mendelian inheritance
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Reference: OCR
Characteristics are determined by inherited units that pass unchanged to offspring, rather than blending as previously believed.
Topics that use mendelian inheritance
- Inheritance (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Asexual reproduction
- carrier identification
- chromosomes
- continuous variation
- data interpretation
- direct proportion
- discontinuous variation
- DNA
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