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1435 - What is the extension of Mendel's law of heredity?
An extension of Mendel's law of heredity is the 'Laws of Inheritance beyond Mendel'. However, three laws are significant:
The Hardy-Weinberg Law: This explains how genetic traits are distributed in a large population.
Incomplete Dominance and Co-dominance: These concepts describe how genes interact when two parents have different genes (alleles).
Polygenic Inheritance: This is when many genes work together to create a particular trait like eye color or height.
Additionally, Chromosomal Inheritance, Mitochondrial Inheritance, and Epigenetic Inheritance can also be mentioned as extensions of Mendel's Law.