Independent assortment of genes and their corresponding traits was first observed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 during his studies of genetics in ... assortment is recombination. Recombination occurs ...

The biological research of UC Santa Cruz's Needhi Bhalla to determine the molecular motions at the heart of heredity has yielded a new discovery: The proper transfer of genetic materials depends on ...

using transgenesis or homologous recombination (creating 'knockout' or 'knockin' mice). The other entails using a genetic mapping approach to identify small genomic regions that contain functional ...