What is heredity?

  • A
    Transmission of characters from one generation to the next.
  • B
    The phenomenon of parental traits being passed down to offspring.
  • C
    The similarity between parents and offspring.
  • D
    All of the above.

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Discuss the seven pairs of contrasting traits in pea plants studied by Mendel.

In the case of $PTC$ tasters and non-tasters in humans,$T$ represents the dominant allele and $t$ represents the recessive allele. Which of the following genotypes is unable to taste $PTC$?

$A$: Mendel proposed postulates like "principles of segregation and principles of independent assortment" after studying seven pairs of contrasting traits in garden pea.
$R$: He was lucky in selecting seven characters in pea that were located on seven different chromosomes.

Mendel's results on the inheritance of characters were rediscovered by

Differentiate between Dominance and Recessive traits.

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