Mendelianadj.n.

1902 W. Bateson & E. R. Saunders Rep. to Evol. Comm. Royal Soc. No. 1. 15 Cases which follow Mendelian principles.

1931 H. S. Williams Bk. Marvels 103 It is..doubtful whether the phenomena of Mendelian dominance and recessiveness..make themselves clearly manifest with regard to any heritable characters.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 97 47/1 Polygenic traits, though their genetic basis is just as ‘mendelian’ as that of single-gene traits, are not included.

1984 M. J. Taussig Processes in Pathol. & Microbiol. (ed. 2) vii. 827 Some examples of diseases inherited as dominant Mendelian traits..are Huntington's chorea..and Marfan's syndrome.

1999 S. Jones Almost like Whale v. 113 All this might seem a slight exception to the great Mendelian truth.

1903 Biometrika 2 213 While all these results are explicable on the basis of ancestry, the Mendelian can only pass them over by asserting that the greyhound is an incorrigible mongrel.

1925 A. Huxley Let. 25 Feb. (1969) 242 You Mendelians have made all that..philosophy look..dubious.

1941 J. 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.

1972 Science 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.

1988 Nature 7 Apr. 492/1 Today..it is hard to appreciate that the early mendelians engaged in a bitter debate with the darwinians about the mechanism of evolution.

1905 Science 7 Apr. 526/1 The chance combination of these chromosomes into pairs in fertilization corresponds with the combination of qualities (the Mendelian ratio) in alternate inheritance.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 118/1 In cases of trihybridism the Mendelian ratio for the forms appearing in F₂ is 27:9:9:9:3:3:3:1.

1925 Bot. Gaz. 79 33 Since the majority of potential white grains never develop..the normal Mendelian ratio of 3 colored : 1 white is distorted in the direction of a deficiency of white grains.

1951 Amer. Naturalist 85 268 This procedure is especially tempting if the population ratio happens to simulate a Mendelian or a modified Mendelian ratio.

1997 Molecular & Cellular Biol. 17 5559 A palindrome of 15.3 kb..was found to be transmitted at a normal Mendelian ratio in mice, in striking contrast to the profound instability of large palindromes in prokaryotic systems.