mendelian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.16 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to the Austrian biologist and friar Gregor Mendel (1822–1884) or his theories of genetics.
adj
Following Gregor Mendel's laws of intergenerational gene transmission.
adj
Of or relating to Gregor Mendel's laws of gene transmission.
adj
Alternative letter-case form of Mendelian.
Example Sentences
- "The Cambridge “Mendelians” hope to be able to produce at will a brown egg-laying hen of prolific habit, just as they produced a strong rust-resisting wheat of high yield by working on the Mendelian law."
- "a Mendelian disease"
- "There are Mendelian inconsistencies in the data."
- "The Mendelians went further, representing all organisms – including humans – as divisible masses of simple biological atoms called “traits.” Some traits were physical: height, eye color, ear shape and such. Other traits were mental: intelligence, creativity, bravery, musical ability, idiocy. Mendelians offered rules and patterns for inheritance."
- "There were really three things: the possibility of spontaneous mutation; the possibility of rare variants that don't exist in the population for very long because they're eliminated quickly; the possibility of there being many loci that could contribute to the disorder. And those three things were generally missed, and the way the Mendelians tried to deal with this was to say: "These are complex disorders caused by the alignment of the planets;" […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English Mendel Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Latin -iānusbor. English -ian English Mendelian From Mendel + -ian.