Question

Father of heredity is:
a. Mendel
b. Butler
c. Aristotle
d. Darwin

Answer 1

Heredity is the transfer of traits from parents to the offspring during reproduction. These traits are transferred in both asexual and sexual reproduction.

Complete Answer:
Mendel is known as the father of heredity. Mendel, while working on the pea plant, gives the laws of inheritance. He was the first person to observe and study heredity. Mendel studies the plants' seven characteristics, such as plant height, plant pod shape, plant pod color, seed shape, seed color, flower color, and flower position. He studied these characteristics in more than one generation to conclude that the factor is the transfer from parents to offspring.

Thus, the correct answer is option (a): Mendel

Additional Information:
Mendel has given three laws of inheritance. These laws are the law of dominance, law of segregation, and law of independent assortment.
The law of dominance is the first law of inheritance. It states that when both dominant and recessive alleles are present in the offspring, then the dominant allele will express in the phenotype.
The law of segregation is the second law of inheritance. It states that during the production of the gamete, each gamete consists of one copy of the allele.
The law of independent assortment is the third law of inheritance. It states that a pair of traits separates independently from another trait during the gamete formation.

Note:
Mendel had given the concept of genes and alleles but gave them another term. Mendel is called allele as a factor and gene as an alternate factor. Then described the three laws using factor only.