The Synthesis of "heritability"

An explanation of genetic traits and why their study is a growing trend, impacting everything from personalized medicine to lifestyle choices.

Discover what a genotype is, how it differs from a phenotype, and why this fundamental concept in genetics determines your unique inherited traits.

Explore epigenetics, the study of how your environment and behaviors can cause changes that affect the way your genes work without altering DNA.

Discover genetic inheritance, the process by which traits are passed from parents to offspring through DNA. Learn how it defines our unique identity.

Explore heredity, the process by which traits are passed from parents to offspring through genes. Understand your own genetic blueprint.

Discover alleles, the different versions of a gene that determine our unique traits like eye color and blood type. Learn how they shape who we are.

Explore genes, the fundamental units of heredity inside our DNA. Learn how they build our bodies, influence health, and power modern science.

Discover co-dominance, a genetic pattern where both alleles are fully expressed. Learn how it works with examples like human ABO blood types.

A simple explanation of recessive alleles, the genetic instructions that only appear if inherited from both parents, influencing traits and diseases.

Discover Gregor Mendel, the friar and botanist known as the 'father of modern genetics' for his groundbreaking work on heredity with pea plants.