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Mendelize, v.|ˈmɛndəlaɪz|
Also mendelize.
[f. as prec.: see -ize.]
intr. To behave or be transmitted in accordance with Mendel's laws of inheritance.
1906L. H. Bailey Plant Breeding (ed. 4) 171 We do not know what plants will Mendelize until we try. 1913M. Hartog Probl. Life & Reproduction vii. 190 He found the characters thus acquired behaved as unit (‘allelomorph’) hereditary characters to the normal ones, and Mendelised just as do the unit characters which have arisen spontaneously, or have been transmitted for generations. 1924E. W. Macbride Introd. Study Heredity viii. 212 ‘Sports’..which breed true when crossed with their like, but which ‘mendelize’ when crossed with the type. 1973Sci. Amer. Apr. 8/2 Mendel repeated Nägeli's work with seeds supplied by him and to his disappointment found that they did not Mendelize.
Hence ˈMendelizing ppl. a.
1918Babcock & Clausen Genetics Rel. Agric. 286 Those changes in specific factors which result in the appearance of new Mendelizing characters. 1952Amer. Scientist XL. 89 The differences between subspecies are hereditary and they are based upon mendelizing differences. 1969Nature 14 June 1101/2 Their results..constitute the first thorough genetic analysis of a maternally determined Mendelizing character. |