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Just how lucky was Mendel in his experiments that yielded his landmark results? This question has been widely discussed among scientists over the years. Mendel selected traits whose inheritance patterns enabled him to avoid certain complex inheritance patterns that would have made his results and interpretations more challenging. The inheritance of traits such as those studied by Mendel is described as simple (simply inherited) traits or having Mendelian inheritance. There are other numerous traits that have complex inheritance patterns that cannot be predicted by Mendelian ratios. Several factors are responsible for the observation of non‐Mendelian ratios as discussed next.