SAN FRANCISCO — When it comes to thinking about inheritances, both baby boomers and older Americans say money's not everything. Instead, baby boomers say their parents' personal keepsakes, family ...

It is often difficult to advocate for the importance of gene inheritance and transmission. After all, why should anyone care about Mendelian genetics? Mendel did excellent work, but his research was ...

Using your inheritance to buy a yacht is not likely a good way to maximize the value of your windfall. You may have a friend, or two, who has blown a large inheritance. Some of you may have also seen ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

Doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) represents a rare and intriguing deviation from the standard model of strictly maternal inheritance. In bivalves, DUI manifests as the ...