Question

Mendel published his work on inheritance of characters in 1865, but it remained unrecognised till 1900. Give three reasons for the delay in accepting his work.

Answer 1

The three reasons for the delay in accepting Mendel's work are as follows:

1) Lack of communication and publicity.

2) His concept of factors (genes) as discrete units that did not blend with each other was not accepted in the light of variations occurring continuously in nature.

3) Mendel approach to explaining the biological phenomenon with the help of mathematics was also not accepted.