As climate change accelerates, plants face mounting pressure to adapt to shifting ecosystems and environmental conditions.

Indeed, Figure 1 shows an example of a cross between homozygous ... This in turn led to the idea of genetic linkage, which means that when two genes are closely associated on the same chromosome ...

The founder effect is an extreme example of "genetic drift." Genes occurring at a certain frequency in the larger population will occur at a different frequency -- more or less often -- in a ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey ...