The Rediscovery of Mendelian Inheritance Caused Increased Scrutiny of Darwin's

question 9

Multiple Choice

The rediscovery of Mendelian inheritance caused increased scrutiny of Darwin's theory of natural selection because of an apparent conflict in the two concepts.This conflict was based on the observation that Darwin focused on continuous traits,whereas Mendelian genetics deals with

• A)discrete characters.
• B)alleles.
• C)flowers.
• D)genotypes.
• E)All of the above

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