Genetics is the study of how living things receive common traits from previous generations. These traits are described by the genetic information carried by a molecule called DNA. The instructions for ...

Inheritance is the passing of traits from parents to offspring. Our modern understanding of inheritance comes from a set of principles proposed by Austrian monk and researcher Gregor Mendel in 1865.

This video presents key concepts including what a genetic variant is, DNA strand, ambiguous and unambiguous alleles. Types of genetic variation including SNPs, insertions and deletions, biallelic and ...