The scientist who worked on garden pea before Mendel was
A
Goss
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B
Kolreuter
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C
Bateson
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D
Maupertius
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Solution
The correct option is D Goss Mendel was known as the father of genetics due to his remarkable work on pea plant. He concluded the laws of inheritance from his experiments. He Mendel had underlined references to articles on pea crossing experiments by John Goss and Alexander Sewton, both of whom had also made hybrids from different varieties of pea plants.