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Mendelian, a. and n. Biol.|mɛnˈdiːlɪən|
[f. the name of Gregor Johann Mendel (1822–84) + -ian.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Mendel, or following his law or theory of heredity.
1901Bateson, etc. Rep. to Evol. Comm. Roy. Soc. (1902) 15 Cases which follow Mendelian principles. 1902Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity 114 The Mendelian principle of heredity asserts a proposition at variance with all the laws of ancestral heredity, however formulated. 1902Nature 9 Oct. 573/1 The Mendelian theory.
B. n. One who adheres to or supports Mendel's principles of heredity.
1903K. Pearson in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. CCIII. 57 If we were ‘pure Mendelians’ we should for the purpose of character classification make v = w. 1907Nature 23 May 73/1 It would be regarded as a demonstration of the falsity of the doctrine of gametic purity by everyone who was not a Mendelian. 1925A. Huxley Let. 25 Feb. (1969) 242 You Mendelians have made all that..philosophy look..dubious. 1941J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man ii. 82 Twenty-five years ago..the field of heredity was still a battle-field. The Mendelians and the Biometricians were disputing for its possession. 1972Science 12 May 623/3 The Mendelians, with their insistence upon large mutations as the agent of evolutionary change, undercut the Darwinian assumption of insensibly graded variation. |