Mendel's early experiments challenged the central premise upon which previous ideas about inheritance had rested.This was the premise that
A) there is only one gene for each trait.
B) there are two genes for each trait.
C) offspring can inherit only those traits that are displayed by their parents.
D) white seeds are dominant.
E) some traits are dominant and some are recessive.

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Mendel's experiments with pea plants demonstrated that offspring could inherit traits that were not displayed by their parents, challenging the then-prevailing idea that offspring could only inherit visible traits of their parents. This led to the understanding of recessive and dominant traits, where a recessive trait can be carried by an organism and passed to offspring without being expressed in the organism's appearance.

Mendel's Early Experiments Challenged the Central Premise Upon Which Previous