What was the most significant conclusion that Gregor Mendel drew from his experiments with pea plants?
A) There is considerable genetic variation in garden peas.
B) Traits are inherited in discrete units, and are not the results of "blending."
C) Recessive genes occur more frequently in the F₁ generation than do dominant ones.
D) Genes are composed of DNA.
E) An organism that is homozygous for many recessive traits is at a disadvantage.
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Q1: Mendel's observation of the segregation of alleles
Q2: A sexually reproducing animal has two unlinked
Q4: Which of the following differentiates between independent
Q5: In certain plants, tall is dominant to
Q6: Mendel was able to draw his ideas
Q7: When crossing an organism that is homozygous
Q8: The fact that all seven of the
Q9: Why did Mendel continue some of his
Q10: Mendel's second law of independent assortment has
Q11: Two plants are crossed, resulting in offspring
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