Tag: biology

Mendel was lucky because he used pea plant i.e. Pisum sativum, they are bisexual, they had pure breeding varieties with observable characters, & each character is regulated by one type of gene, whether it is tall, dwarf, round or wrinkled etc. It was an ideal choice for him.

Mendel was successful in formulating the laws of inheritance whereas his predecessors were not because of the following reasons.

He selected only pure breeding varieties of pea for his experiments.

He took one or two characters at one time while his predecessor often studied all the traits simultaneously.

He formulated theoretical explanations for interpreting his results.

He used statistical methods and law of probability for analyzing results, etc.,

So, the correct explanation is ‘He studied one clear-cut character at a time’.

Mendel’s work(monohybrid cross & dihybrid cross) did not receive any recognition, remained unnoticed, and unappreciated for several years due to the following reasons:

Communication was not easy in those days and his work could not be widely publicized.

His concept of stable, unblending and discrete units or factors for various traits did not find acceptance from the contemporaries.

His approach of using mathematics and statistical analysis to explain biological phenomena was totally new and unacceptable to many biologists. He could not provide any physical proof for the existence of factors. In 1900, three scientists Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns, and Erich von Tschermark, worked independently on Mendel’s work, proved whatever explained by Mendel on inheritance is true. It is called Rediscovery of Mendel’s laws.

He chose garden pea that was easy to grow and to hybridise artificailly.

The plant reproduce well and grows to maturity in a single season.

Mendel then chose to follow seven visible features(unit characters), each represented by two contrasting forms or traits.

Mendel was fortunate in choosing a diploid plant because diploid organisms contain only two sets of chromosomes.

A singe alteration in a trait was therefore demonstrated by a visible differences between varieites.

He restricted his examination to one or very few pairs of contrasting traits in each experiment.

He also kept accurate quatitative records, a necessity in genetic experiments.

In his experiments, no appearance of recombinations and linkage.

So, the correct option is ‘Traits chosed by him had genes far apart so that linkage was absent’.

Mendel’s work was rediscovered by Hugo de Vries, T.Correns, and Carl Correns independently in 1900.

So, the correct answer is ‘1900’.

The correct answer will be '7 pairs of true breeding varieties' that was used by Mendel for his experiments on pea plant.

Mendelian inheritance is a type of biological inheritance that follows the laws originally proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 and 1866 and rediscovered in 1900.

Mendel’s law of inheritance were rediscovered by Hugo de vries, Tschemark, Correns. Hugo de vries republished the Mendel’s work in ‘Flora’.

So, the correct option is ‘De vries’.

Carl Erich Correns was a German botanist and geneticist, who is notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, and for his rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on that subject, which he achieved simultaneously but independently of the botanists Erich Tschermak von Seysenegg. He also converted Mendel’s conclusions into principles of heredity.

So, the conclusion is ‘Carl correns’.