Knight followed up on attempts of English farmers to improve varieties of agriculture with his studies on garden peas.When he crossed two true breeding varieties,he found out a number of things about an inherited trait.Which of the following about inherited traits is false?
A)An inherited trait can be masked in some generations but may show up in future.
B)An inherited trait may show up in some offspring only.
C)An inherited trait may be represented more often than the others.
D)An inherited trait is always present in every generation.

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The statement "An inherited trait is always present in every generation" is false. As Knight's experiment with pea plants showed, certain traits can be masked in one generation but reappear in the next generation due to their presence in the genetic makeup of the parent plants. This phenomenon is known as the principle of segregation.

Knight Followed Up on Attempts of English Farmers to Improve