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GCSE Biology · key term
Mendel’s name for a discrete unit of inheritance passed from a parent to its offspring, rather than permanently blending with another unit.
Used by Edexcel
Specification 3.11B · Paper 1
Revise: MendelMendel proposed that characteristics were determined by separate hereditary factors, or units, passed from parents to offspring unchanged. An offspring received one factor from each parent for a characteristic.
Link Mendel’s conclusions to his observations: a characteristic disappearing and then reappearing showed that its hereditary factor had not been lost or permanently blended.
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