GENETIC INHERITANCE

You’ve got your mother’s eyes and your father’s nose. Your grandmother’s chin and your grandfather’s left ankle.

Through the generations, these traits have been passed down through your genetic blueprint.

Genes separate into gametes through meiosis and combine during fertilization. We use Mendelian principles to analyze the inheritance of genes and genetic disorders in a population.

The collective shift in the genetic profile of a species over the span of many generations is called - you guessed it - evolution.