Abstract
Inheritance is the transmission of genetic information from parents to offspring. Most of the genetic information is located on the chromosomes. The principles of chromosomal inheritance were first discovered experimentally by Gregor Mendel in 1865 and rediscovered by Correns, von Tschermak and de Vries in 1900.
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Graf, U., van Schaik, N., Würgler, F.E. (1992). Transmission Genetics. In: Drosophila Genetics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76805-7_3
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