Gregor Mendel's Work with Hereditary Traits of Pea Plants

question 53

Multiple Choice

Gregor Mendel's work with hereditary traits of pea plants

• A) confirmed the paint-pot theory of inheritance.
• B) led to the formulation of the law of independent assortment.
• C) proved that natural selection operates on genotypes.
• D) was the basis for Darwin's theory of evolution.
• E) discredited the phenomenon of balanced polymorphism.

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