fundamentals of genetics

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Correct answer from Chandrashekar

Answer: A) Gregor Johann Mendel

             B) Pea plant(Pisum sativum)

Connect:Gregor Mendel did experiments on pea plants which led to some basic laws of modern genetics.

Between 1856 and 1863 Mendel cultivated and tested some 29,000 pea plants (i.e., Pisum sativum). This study showed that one in four pea plants had purebred recessive alleles, two out of four were hybrid and one out of four were purebred dominant. His experiments led him to make two generalizations, the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment, which later became known as Mendel's Laws of Inheritance.