Mendelian Genetics: Inheritance and Dominance

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What term is used today to refer to the factors that determine inheritance?

  • Hybrids
  • Alleles
  • Genes (correct)
  • Offspring

Before Mendel, heredity was considered a blending process. What did Mendel's work demonstrate?

  • Specific laws govern the different characters in heredity. (correct)
  • Genes do not play a role in heredity.
  • Heredity is a random process.
  • Blending theory is correct.

Which principles of heredity did Mendel establish through his experiments?

  • Law of dominance and law of blending
  • Law of dominance and law of co-dominance
  • Law of co-dominance and epigenetics
  • Law of segregation and law of independent assortment (correct)

What did Mendel prove by showing that different characters in heredity follow specific laws?

<p>Existence of paired elementary units of heredity (genes) (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Mendel apply to a biological problem for the first time?

<p>Knowledge of mathematics and statistics (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How long did Mendel's studies remain unrecognized after his death?

<p>34 years (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to the pre-Mendelian theories, what was the basis of the Vapour and Fluid Theories?

<p>Organs of the body give out some type of vapours that unite to form a new individual. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the definition of HEREDITY according to the passage?

<p>The specific mechanisms by which characteristics or traits are passed from parents to offspring via genes. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the definition of VARIATIONS according to the passage?

<p>The tendency of offspring to differ from their parents. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which pre-Mendelian theory proposed that genetic material is preformed in the reproductive cells?

<p>Particulate Theories (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the definition of GENETICS according to the passage?

<p>The study of heredity and variations of inherited characters. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which pre-Mendelian theory proposed that offspring are formed through the combination of reproductive materials from both parents?

<p>Biparental Inheritance (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which theory proposed that the body produces minute particles called 'gemmules' that are collected in the reproductive organs?

<p>Theory of Pangenesis (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

According to Lamarck's theory of 'Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics', how did giraffes develop long necks?

<p>They inherited long necks from their ancestors who continually stretched their necks to reach food. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which theory proposed the existence of two types of cells, 'somatic cells' and 'reproductive cells', in the body of organisms?

<p>Theory of Germplasm (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which theory proposed that the inheritance of characteristics is determined by 'elementary particles'?

<p>Biparental Inheritance by Elementary Particles (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is NOT one of the particulate theories mentioned in the text?

<p>Theory of Epigenesis (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who proposed the Theory of Germplasm in 1892?

<p>August Friedrich Leopold Weismann (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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