NEETZoologyPrinciples of Inheritance and Variation
What was done by later scientists based on Mendel's framework?
Options
- AThey dismissed his ideas
- BThey expanded on it to account for diverse natural observations and complexity
- CThey replicated his experiments exactly without any changes
- DThey focused on different organisms entirely
Correct answer
B. They expanded on it to account for diverse natural observations and complexity
Step-by-step solution
Also, the confirmation of his inferences from experiments on successive generations of his test plants, proved that his results pointed to general rules of inheritance rather than being unsubstantiated ideas. Mendel investigated characters in the garden pea plant that were manifested as two opposing traits, e.g., tall or dwarf plants, yellow or green seeds. This allowed him to set up a basic framework of rules governing inheritance, which was expanded on by later scientists to account for all the diverse natural ob