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The Journal of Heredity 1984:75(4):321-323
© 1984 The American Genetic Association 75:321-323

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The true Mendelian laws

Floyd V. Monaghan, and Alain Corcos

Department of Natural Science, Michigan State University East Lansing. MI 48824

Abstract

In the course of his researches on plant hybridization, Mendel established a number of invariant relationships of observables that held within well defined limiting conditions. Most of these could be expressed in mathematical form. These relationships of Mendel fully conform to the accepted definition of empirical natural laws. In this paper we have isolated a number of these laws that we believe are properly the true Mendelian laws in contrast to the more familiar laws of segregation and independent assortment. We conclude by showing that having formulated his quantitative laws Mendel proceeded in good physical-science fashion to deduce some consequences of them that had far-reaching breeding and evolutionary implications.


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