Gregor Mendel's Work with Hereditary Traits of Pea Plants

question 5

Multiple Choice

Gregor Mendel's work with hereditary traits of pea plants

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

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