The once prevalent (but now discredited) concept of blending inheritance proposed that some undefined essence, in its entirety, contained all of the heritable information for an individual. It was tho...The once prevalent (but now discredited) concept of blending inheritance proposed that some undefined essence, in its entirety, contained all of the heritable information for an individual. It was thought that mating combined the essences from each parent, much like the mixing of two colors of paint. However, Gregor Mendel (Fig 1.10) was one of the first to take a quantitative, scientific approach to the study of heredity.
The once prevalent (but now discredited) concept of blending inheritance proposed that some undefined essence, in its entirety, contained all of the heritable information for an individual. It was tho...The once prevalent (but now discredited) concept of blending inheritance proposed that some undefined essence, in its entirety, contained all of the heritable information for an individual. It was thought that mating combined the essences from each parent, much like the mixing of two colors of paint. However, Gregor Mendel (Fig 1.10) was one of the first to take a quantitative, scientific approach to the study of heredity.