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NEET UG BIOLOGY MCQ: PRINCIPLE OF INHERITANCE AND VARIATION
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Assertion (A): Mendel gave postulates like "principles of segregation and principles of independent assortment" after studying seven pairs of contrasting traits in garden pea.
Reason (R): He was lucky in selecting seven characters in pea that were located on seven different chromosomes.
Reason (R): He was lucky in selecting seven characters in pea that were located on seven different chromosomes.
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Both (A) & (R) are true and the (R) is the correct explanation of the (A)
Option A (Both (A) & (R) are true and the (R) is the correct explanation of the (A)) is correct because Mendel's success in formulating the laws of segregation and independent assortment was partly due to the fact that the seven traits he studied were located on different chromosomes, allowing for independent assortment.
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