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Biology Principles of Inheritance and Variation Skill Builder Single Correct MCQ

Published by: CGP EDU Academic Team

Published on: August 21, 2026

Mendel self pollinated the

plants and found that dwarfness cannot appear in

and

and and and (E)

Recessive traits are seen due to non-functional enzymes.
,

Mendelian approach of using mathematics was not accepted by many of the biologists of his time, despite of the fact that Mendel provided physical proofs for the existence of factors.
and (E)

Dominance depends as such on the gene product and the production of a particular phenotype from this product as it does on the particular phenotype that we choose to examine, in case more than one phenotype is influenced by same gene.
(E) In an individual, only two alleles can be present. Multiple alleles can be found only when population studies are made.

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Mendel self-pollinated the plants and found that dwarf plants continued to generate dwarf plants in and generations. The confirmation of his inferences from experiments on successive generations of his test plants, proved that his results pointed to general rules of inheritance rather than being unsubstantiated ideas.