PATHOLOGY

PATHOLOGY MCQ

GENETICS AND DISEASE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Gregor Mendel is known as the father of ____
A
Modern Medicine
B
Father of the Green Revolution
C
Father of Genetics
D
The Pea Plant Man
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 Mendel: 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.

Detailed explanation-5: -The basic laws of heredity were formed by an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel. Because his work laid the foundation to the study of heredity, Mendel is referred to as the Father of Genetics.

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