Microsatellite marker has many advantages such as a great quantity, extensive dispersion around the genome, high polyomorphism, Mendelian codominant inheritance, rapid and convenient detection.
Most our old explanations about eye color genetics came from his ideas, but more recently we've discovered that most traits don't fit neatly into Mendel's little squares because they involve several genes interacting together.
Austrian researcher Gregor Mendel had proposed these ideas in the middle of the nineteenth century after completing a series of experiments with plants.
Among many other achievements, Haldane played a central role in marrying Darwinian principles of evolution to the genetic work of Gregor Mendel to produce what is known to geneticists as the Modern Synthesis.
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Mandelbrot's criticism was aimed at those who model prices for shares and commodities on the assumption that one price leads directly to another and things average out in the long run.
That's a pretty simplified version but I hope you get the picture and let me know if you want me to explain chromosomes and Mendelian genetics sometime on another episode. I love this stuff.