NEETZoologyPrinciples of Inheritance and Variation
When was headway made in the understanding of inheritance?
Options
- AEarly eighteenth century
- BMid-nineteenth century
- CLate nineteenth century
- DEarly twentieth century
Correct answer
B. Mid-nineteenth century
Step-by-step solution
Explanation : It was during the mid-nineteenth century that headway was made in the understanding of inheritance. Gregor Mendel, conducted hybridisation experiments on garden peas for seven years (1856-1863) and proposed the laws of inheritance in living organisms. During Mendel’s investigations into inheritance patterns it was for the first time that statistical analysis and mathematical logic were applied to problems in biology. His experiments had a large sampling size, which gave greater credibility to the data