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Directions: Select the most appropriate filler(s) for the blank(s) such that the sentence makes coherent sense.
Mendel concluded that heredity was controlled by discrete units of living substance transmitted by both parents to their offspring and ________ in each generation.
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reassorted
💡 Explanation:
This sentence is based on genetics, which implies that discrete units or genes pass on characters from parents to offsprings and in second and later generations exhibit these characters in all possible combinations i.e. they assort themselves in all combinations. Hence, (1) is the answer.