Multiple Choice
Which of the following best explains how the sweet pea plants in the parental (P) generation produce offspring with only one type of trait for a given character in Mendel's experiments?
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2. Mendel's Laws of Inheritance
Mendel's Experiments and Laws
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Gregor Mendel's main contribution was to solve the puzzle of:
A
how traits are inherited from one generation to the next
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the structure of DNA
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the mechanism of protein synthesis
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the process of natural selection
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Understand the historical context of Gregor Mendel's work, which focused on patterns of inheritance in pea plants.
Recognize that Mendel's experiments led to the formulation of fundamental laws of inheritance, such as the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment.
Identify that Mendel's main contribution was explaining how traits are passed from parents to offspring through discrete units, now known as genes.
Distinguish Mendel's work from other discoveries: the structure of DNA was discovered later by Watson and Crick, protein synthesis mechanisms were elucidated in the mid-20th century, and natural selection was proposed by Darwin.
Conclude that Mendel's key contribution was solving the puzzle of how traits are inherited from one generation to the next.
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