Most important theory of general biology was proposed by :
A
Mendel and Morgan
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B
Beadle and Tatum
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C
Watson and Crick
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D
Darwin and Wallace
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Solution
The correct option is D Darwin and Wallace The most important theory of general biology is the theory of evolution by natural selection. In the early 19th century Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744 – 1829) proposed his theory of the transmutation of species, the first fully formed theory of evolution. In 1858 Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace published a new evolutionary theory, explained in detail in Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859).