Location: 1.2 Humans Have Been Using Genetics for Thousands of Years The Early U

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Location: 1.2 Humans Have Been Using Genetics for Thousands of Years The Early Use and Understanding of Heredity Pages 7-8 and Figure 1.9 Gregor Mendel is generally recognized as the father of genetics because he: generated new varieties of pea plants by random crosses of natural varieties. a. discovered the principles of heredity by crossing different varieties of pea plants and analyzing their traits in subsequent generations. discovered that inheritance of specific traits is associated with inheritance of particular chromosomes. c. d. all of the above. e. both b and c. Location: 1.2 Humans Have Been Using Genetics for Thousands of Years The Rise of the Science of Genetics ust Weismann cut off the tails of mice for 22 consecutive generations, yet each generation all the descendants were born with long tails. His experiment demonstrated that: 7. Aug a. acquired characteristics are not heritable. b. sex cells carry a complete set of genetic information that is passed to offspring

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6)ans: C discovered that inheritance of specific traits is associated with inheritance of particular chromosomes

7)Ans: A acquired characteristics are not heritable.he proved that the bodily changes are not inherited.so they won't be passed to the offsprings.

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