Question

_____ is called the father of genetics.

• A. Mendel
• B. Hook
• C. Virchow
• D. Strasburger

Answer 1

The correct option is A

Mendel

The correct option is A:

Explanation of correct option:

1. Gregor Mendel, known as the Father of Genetics, was a pioneer in the field of genetics. He found the basic inheritance rules by experimenting on pea plants.
2. The three inheritance laws are as follows:
   1. Law of dominance: It states that when two alleles of a character are heterozygous, the one that expresses is dominant and the one that does not is recessive.
   2. Law of segregation: Although a character's alleles have been together for a long time, they do not mix and separate at the time of gametogenesis, resulting in each gamete receiving only one dominant or recessive allele of a character.
   3. Law of Independent assortment: It states that a character's alleles can be combined in any way to produce a phenotype that is different from both parents.

Explanation to incorrect option:

Option B:

1. Robert Hooke discovered the cell wall in 1665 when he looked through his microscope and spotted an empty box-like compartments in a very thin slice of cork.

Option C:

1. Rudolf Virchow proposed in 1838 that 'Omnis cellula e cellula,' which means that new cells form via division from pre-existing cells.
2. The discovery of Rudolf Virchow changed the cell hypothesis since Schleiden believed that new cells bud out from the nucleus before the discovery of Rudolf Virchow.

Option D:

1. Eduard Strasburger coined the word cytoplasm in the year 1882.

Final answer: Gregor Mendel is called the father of genetics.