CELL DIVISION
MEIOSIS AND GENETIC VARIATION
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following statements is true about Mendel? His discoveries concerning genetic inheritance were generally accepted by the scientific community when he published them during the mid 19th century. He believed that genetic traits of parents will usually blend in their children.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gregor Mendel, through his work on pea plants, discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent. Mendel tracked the segregation of parental genes and their appearance in the offspring as dominant or recessive traits.
Detailed explanation-3: -Known for his pea plant experiments, Mendel is now regarded as the ‘father of genetics’ because he worked out so much about how traits are passed from one generation to the next, despite living long before anyone had heard of DNA, chromosomes or genes.