Principles of Inheritance and Variation

• Genetics: It is the branch of science that deals with the principles of inheritance and its practices.
• Mendel was the first to carry out the study on the transmission of characteristics from parents to offspring.
• Mendel proposed that heredity is controlled by genes.
• ’s law of inheritance
• Mendel experimented on garden pea plant (Pisum sativum) having many visible contrasting characters.
• He used seven contrasting pairs of characters or traits in garden pea.