Multiple choice

Which of the following findings was not an outcome of Mendel's experiments?

  1. Independent assortment

  2. Dominant characters

  3. Segregation of factors

  4. Factors are present in the chromosomes

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Explanation

Mendel discovered independent assortment, dominant characters, and segregation of factors through his experiments, but he did not know that factors (genes) are present on chromosomes - chromosome theory came later. Mendel worked with 'factors' as abstract units of heredity without knowledge of their physical location on chromosomes.

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