Mendelian Inheritance Quiz

Mendelian inheritance is a type of biological inheritance following the principles originally proposed by Gregor Mendel.

Mendel's principles of inheritance were rediscovered in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns.

William Bateson popularized Mendel's principles of inheritance.

<p>Thomas Hunt Morgan integrated Mendel's theories with the Boveri-Sutton chromosome theory of inheritance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ronald Fisher combined Mendel's principles with the theory of natural selection in his 1930 book The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Heredity is the passing on of traits from parents to their offspring through asexual or sexual reproduction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Genetics is the study of heredity in biology.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Genotype refers to the complete set of genes within an organism's genome.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Phenotype refers to the complete set of observable traits of the structure and behavior of an organism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inherited traits are controlled by genes.</p> Signup and view all the answers