Question

Select the option that correctly identifies the given statements as true (T) or false (F).

I. Mendel for the first time used statistical analysis and mathematical logic to solve problems in biology while investigating inheritance patterns.

II. For his experiments, Mendel collected very few samples which added greater credibility to his work.

III. Mendel confirmed his inferences from experiments on successive generations of his test plants and this proved that his results are pointing at general rules of inheritance.

• A. I - T, II - F, III - T
• B. I - F, II - T, III - F
• C. I - T, II - T, III - F
• D. I - T, II - F, III - F

Answer 1

The correct option is A I - T, II - F, III - T

Mendel while working on garden pea and conducting hybridisation experiments on it for seven years, analysed his results with the help of statistics and mathematical logic.

This helped him to solve problems in biology while investigating inheritance patterns which was never done before.

For his experiments, he collected large sample sizes which added greater credibility to his work.

He confirmed his observations from experiments on successive generations of his test plants and this proved that his results are forming the basis of inheritance and are not just ideas or assumptions.