👉 Mendelism is a concept in botany that describes genetic inheritance patterns and how plants inherit their traits from their parents. It is named after Gregor Mendel, who proposed it in 1865. The theory states that genes are passed on by random assortment to offspring, with the pattern of inheritance repeating itself every generation. In Mendelian inheritance, all individuals have at least one copy of each gene, and if two individuals have both a certain gene (a homozygous