mendelian

1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of Mendelian.

alternative mendelian

1. not comparablebiologyOf or relating to the Austrian biologist and friar Gregor Mendel (1822–1884) or his theories of genetics.

   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.

   1912 May 20, “To Breed Red-Egg Hens. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2026

2. not comparableFollowing Gregor Mendel's laws of intergenerational gene transmission.

   a Mendelian disease

3. not comparableOf or relating to Gregor Mendel's laws of gene transmission.

   There are Mendelian inconsistencies in the data.

plural Mendelians

1. An adherent of the views of the Austrian biologist and friar Gregor Mendel (1822–1884).

   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.

   1912 May 20, “To Breed Red-Egg Hens. […]”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2026

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   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.

   2000 August 27, Joe Cain, “The Prince of Peas”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Dec 2019

   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;" […]

   2008 January 17, Nikhil Swaminathan, quoting Michael Wigler, “Working around the Mendelians: A Q&A; with Michael Wigler”, in Scientific American, New York, N.Y.: Springer Nature America, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2014