Question

State whether the following statement is true or false.

Mendel did not deal with linkage and incomplete dominance.

Answer 1

This statement is true.

Explanation:

Mendel’s original experiments focused on traits that assorted independently and showed clear dominance and recessiveness. He did not study linkage (where genes are inherited together because they are close on the same chromosome) or incomplete dominance (where the hybrid phenotype is intermediate between the two parents). These phenomena were discovered after Mendel’s work, as his chosen traits did not exhibit such complexities, which contributed to the clarity of his results.