Question

Blending theory was replaced by particulate theory of _______.

• A. Kolreuter
• B. Gaertner
• C. Mendel
• D. Darwin

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

Mendel

Blending inheritance is an obsolete theory and it states that the progeny inherits any characteristic as the average of the parent's values of that characteristic. The blending inheritance was dismissed by the eventual widespread acceptance by Gregor Mendel's theory of particulate inheritance, which he had presented in experiments on plant hybridisation which states that instead of blending, the offspring inherits a version of a gene, called an allele, from each of the parents.

So, the correct option is C.