NEET BIOLOGY

GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

EVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who is often referred to as the “Father of Genetics?”
A
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
B
Charles Darwin
C
Rosalind Franklin
D
Gregor Mendel
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Like many great artists, the work of Gregor Mendel was not appreciated until after his death. He is now called the “Father of Genetics, ” but he was remembered as a gentle man who loved flowers and kept extensive records of weather and stars when he died.

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: -Gregor Johann Mendel is known as the ‘Father of Genetics’.

Detailed explanation-4: -Our modern understanding of how traits may be inherited through generations comes from the principles proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1865. However, Mendel didn’t discover these foundational principles of inheritance by studying human beings, but rather by studying Pisum sativum, or the common pea plant.

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