Gregor Mendel is regarded as the father of ______

  • A variation
  • B genetics
  • C mycology
  • D natural selection

The correct answer is B. genetics

Gregor Mendel, through his work on pea plants, discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance.

He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent. Mendel tracked the segregation of parental genes and their appearance in the offspring as dominant or recessive traits.

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