Gregor Mendel Is Known for

question 26

Multiple Choice

Gregor Mendel is known for

• A)studying natural selection in the animal life on the Galapagos.
• B)breeding plants to demonstrate the logic behind inherited trait transmission.
• C)experiments that demonstrated the direction of blood circulation in the body.
• D)breeding chickens to reveal the laws of inheritance.

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