Principles Of Inheritance And Variations Flashcards
What is inheritance
It is the process by which characters are passed on from parent to progeny
What is the basis of heredity
Inheritance
Inheritance is the basis of
Heredity
What are variations
It is the degree by which progeny differ from their parents
Humans knew from as early as ___ that one of the causes of variation was hidden in sexual reproduction
8000-1000 BC
What did early humans exploit to selectively breed and select for organisms that possessed desirable characters
Variations
Through ___ and ___ from ancestral wild cows we have well known indian breeds
Artificial selection and domestication
Give an example for a well know Indian breed cow
Sahiwal
Sahiwal cows are in
Punjab
It was during the __ that headway was made in the understanding of inheritance
Mid-19th century
It was during the mid-19th century that headway was made in the understanding of ___
Inheritance
Who conducted hybridisation experiments on garden pea
Gregor mendel
For how many years did mendel experiment on garden peas
Seven
Give the time period of mendel experiments
1856-1863
Who proposed the laws of inheritance
Mendel
When was the first time that statistical analysis and mathematical logic were applied in biology
During medel’s experiments