NEETZoologyPrinciples of Inheritance and Variation
Who conducted hybridisation experiments on garden peas?
Options
- ACharles Darwin
- BGregor Mendel
- CAlfred Wallace
- DLouis Pasteur
Correct answer
B. Gregor Mendel
Step-by-step solution
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 that he colle