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question 36

Multiple Choice

Please use the following information to answer the question(s) below.
A man who is an achondroplastic dwarf with normal vision marries a color-blind woman of normal height. The man's father was 6 feet tall, and both the woman's parents were of average height. Achondroplastic dwarfism is autosomal dominant, and red-green color blindness is X-linked recessive.
-What was the most significant conclusion that Gregor Mendel drew from his experiments with pea plants?

• A) There is considerable genetic variation in garden peas.
• B) Traits are inherited in discrete units, and are not the results of the "blending" of traits.
• C) Recessive genes occur more frequently in the F1 generation than do dominant ones.
• D) Genes are composed of DNA.
• E) An organism that is homozygous for many recessive traits is at a disadvantage.

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