GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
GENETIC BASIS OF INHERITANCE
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Question
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They produced male and female parts
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They exhibited blending inheritance
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They would normally self-fertilize
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They had many different traits and exhibited some pure-breeding varieties
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They could be easily cross-fertilized by human manipulation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: The characteristic that was not displayed by Mendel’s pea plants was (e) they exhibited blending inheritance. One of the main reasons that Mendel started his experiments was to discredit the theory of blended inheritance (where offspring have a mix of the characteristics of their parents).
Detailed explanation-2: -The characteristics included plant height, seed texture, seed color, flower color, pea-pod size, pea-pod color, and flower position. For the characteristic of flower color, for example, the two contrasting traits were white versus violet.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mendel studied 7 characters of the pea plant in his experiments. The characters chosen by Mendel were seed color, seed shape, stem height, flower color, flower position, pod color, and pod shape.