Question

Based on "blending inheritance", which Darwin and his contemporaries believed in, if a finch with a large beak depth mates with a finch with a small beak depth, then the offspring will have:
a. a beaks with large depth.
b. beaks with random depth.
c. beaks with small depth.
d. beaks with medium depth

Answer 1

Answer: D)  beaks with medium depth

Explanation:

 According to the question, the offspring will be having the beaks with the medium depth as, the blending inheritance the offspring tend to having the characteristics that are medium between the parents and when the organisms with the long beak with the organism of the short beak then it produces the medium beak depth.

Answer 2

Answer:

The answer is: d. beaks with medium depth.

Explanation:

According to the definition of combined inheritance, the typical traits of progeny between two parents are the intermediate traits between them. The characteristic feature of the parents is the depth of the beak. The progeny will possess the intermediate of the beak. Inheritance has in common the definition of mixture, in which the descendants will have the intermediate characteristics of the two parents.