NEETZoologyPrinciples of Inheritance and Variation
What did the confirmation of Mendel’s inferences from experiments on successive generations prove?
Options
- AHis results were incorrect
- BHis results pointed to general rules of inheritance
- CHis experiments were flawed
- DHis ideas were unsubstantiated
Correct answer
B. His results pointed to general rules of inheritance
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