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Mendelian inheritance is one of the cornerstones of genetics, based on the famous pea experiments of the monk Gregor Mendel. Genes determine the features, or traits, that you inherited from your parents. Some traits you can see, such as height or hair color, and others you can’t, such as blood type. Genes are copied and inherited across generations. Different genes cause different traits to present themselves, and each unique form of a single gene is called an allele. So, for example, the gene specifying blue eyes comes from a different allele than the gene specifying brown eyes.