What Was the Importance of Mendel Performing Reciprocal Crosses

question 47

Multiple Choice

What was the importance of Mendel performing reciprocal crosses?

• A)To be able to breed plants all year round
• B)To obtain enough plants to perform the experiments that Mendel wanted, which would not have been sufficient without performing reciprocal crosses
• C)To disprove a hypothesis at the time the experiments were performed that stated the ovum carried all the information for progeny
• D)To demonstrate that the inheritance of a trait was not dependent on which parent carried the trait

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