Question

Correct reason for Mendel's success was
a. He repeated each experiment several times
b. Traits chosen by him had genes far apart so that linkage was absent
c. He kept a record of all experiments
d. He used statistical techniques

Answer 1

Gregor John Mendel was a German scientist and he is also and founder of Modern genetics, where he established many rules of heredity, and they are usually referred to as the law of Mendelian inheritance, and he also proposed other laws such as the law of segregation and law of independent assortment.

Complete answer:
- Mendel worked with seven characteristics of pea plants such as Plant height, and plant pod shape and pod color, seed shape, and seed color, and also flower position and color.
- By taking the seed color as an example he explains the terms such as Dominant and recessive.
- He has a lot of things associated with his success, and the main reason for the success is he showed that traits were inherited independently with the help of pea plants.
- And the traits which he has chosen are far apart from each other so they do not link to each other.
- He chose garden pea plants for his experiments, which is an annual naturally self-pollinating plant, with several pairs of contrasting characters.
- Mendel mainly concentrated on a single character at a time.
- Where he kept accurate records both qualitatively and quantitatively.
- He used statistical methods for analyzing the results.
- The character selected by Mendel we’re present on different chromosomes, and the seven pairs of contrasting traits selected by him, which shows the complete dominance.

Hence, the correct answer is option (B).

Note: Mendel got success mainly because he selected traits of plants, and his statistical calculations, etc. Apart from this experiment on plants, he also worked on bees and how conducted experiments and also on hawkweed, together all he got success mainly in identifying inheritance, so this is the reason for calling him as a founder of genetics.