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Agriculture · Q378

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 378

Q378

Who is known as father of genetics

A.
Mendel
Answer
B.
Kolreuter
C.
Hugo de Vries
D.
Beadle and Tatum

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Mendel is known as the father of genetics.
Mendel, known as the "Father of modern genetics", chose to study variation in plants in his monastery's 2 hectares experimental garden.
His experiments led him to make two generalizations, the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment, which later came to be known as Mendel's Laws of Inheritance.