English noun: Mendel's law | |||
1. | Mendel's law (cognition) (genetics) one of two principles of heredity formulated by Gregor Mendel on the basis of his experiments with plants; the principles were limited and modified by subsequent genetic research | ||
Broader (hypernym) | law, law of nature | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | law of independent assortment, law of segregation | ||
Domain category | genetic science, genetics | ||