Mendel's Garden is up at Quintessence of Dust

Steve over as Quintessence of Dust has prepared an excellent edition of Mendel's Garden. Read about how to know when you're being overcharged for personalized genetic testing, how to tell whether your child will have red hair, how two white parents can have a black child, and what makes a pink iguana, and much more.

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