Genetics Health Center
The modern science of genetics had its start in 1866 when an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel provided a simple yet powerful description of how traits are passed on from one generation to another. Thanks to Mendel, when we think of our children, we can see them as a mixture of their two parents, with traits from both sides becoming more evident as they grow.
Dr. Greene’s Genetics Topic Center provides information on blood types, the Rh system, figuring paternity, and the how’s and why’s of genetic disorders.
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Blood Types 102: The Role of A, B, O, and AB Groups In Determining Paternity
Blood Types 101: An Introduction to ABO Blood Types and the Rh System
Genetics Top Story
Related concepts: Trisomy 21 Introduction to Down syndrome : Down syndrome is the most common chromosomal abnormality syndrome in humans. What is Down syndrome ? Humans are built to have two sex chromosomes as well as two copies of each of the other 22 chromosomes. Sometimes when babies’ genetic m [...]
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Genetics & Blood Type
Blood Types 101: An Introduction to ABO Blood Types and the Rh System
Blood Types 102: The Role of A, B, O, and AB Groups In Determining Paternity
