Constant Quote by Gregor Mendel

My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in…

— Gregor Mendel

When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids…

— Gregor Mendel

Those traits that pass into hybrid association entirely or almost entirely unchanged, thus themselves representing the traits of the hybrid, are termed dominating and…

— Gregor Mendel

In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively…

— Gregor Mendel

“I'm what the botanists call a hybrid," he said the first time Cora heard him speak, "A mixture of two different families. In flowers,…

— Colson Whitehead

“I hope you will understand it! Linnaeus says the plants get married and make new plant families, and then those families intermarry and create…

— Maryrose Wood

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under…

— Theophrastus

A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

— Dave Barry

Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live in an…

— Elliott Sober

“In Darwin's time no serious attempt had been made to examine the manifestations of variability. A vast assemblage of miscellaneous facts could formerly be…

— William Bateson

When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive…

— Robin Marantz Henig

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin