PATHOLOGY MCQ
GENETICS AND DISEASE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Mendel discovered principles of inheritance because he:
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observed simultaneously all of the characteristics in which the parents differed
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ignored all characteristics except a few markedly contrasting ones which he studied carefully
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studied only the offspring obtained from a single mating
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was smarter than any other scientist of his time
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -So, the correct option is ‘He did not encounter the linkage’.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mendel’s elegantly simple experiment clearly disproved both the blending inheritance and the inheritance of acquired characteristics hypotheses. He proposed an alternate hypothesis, the particulate inheritance hypothesis. He predicted that the inherited phenotypes don’t blend from generation to generation.
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