Answer: The study of plant varieties.
Explanation:
This question relates to the studies that Gregor Mendel, founder of modern genetics, performed at the University of Vienna.
Experimenting on pea plants, Gregor Mendel was able to establish a lot of the rules of heredity that we know today even though his research was not fully appreciated or understood during his own life.
He credited the study of plant varieties to have been most crucial to his final analysis because farmers had been crossbreeding varieties for millennia to bring about better traits in plants.
Answer:
50% green-seed individuals vs. 50% yellow-seed individuals.
Explanation:
Mendel is known as father of genetics. He explained the concept of dominance, the law of segregation and the law of independent assortment while working on pea plant.
Green seed color is recessive and yellow seed color is dominant. A pure green line seed plant (ss) is crossed with heterozygous plant (Ss). The cross is as follows:
Parents ss (green seed) × Ss (Yellow seed)
Gametes s S, s
progeny: Ss, Ss, ss, ss.
Here, Ss is yellow seed and ss is green seed.
50% green-seed individuals vs. 50% yellow-seed individuals are formed after the cross.
Thus, the correct answer is option (a).
