Multiple choice

Directions: For the following question, choose the option that fills up the blank most correctly.
If the organism was such a ________ product of heredity and environment, how could one even begin to distinguish between an individual's observable traits and his basic inheritance?

  1. unblended

  2. mere

  3. cryptic

  4. complicated
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The latter part of the sentence 'distinguish between an individual's observable traits and his basic inheritance' - gives the clue for the blank. As we can see from our common sense that to distinguish between these two traits would be a complicated study, hence (4) is the answer.

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