Father of Human genetics is - Vidyadip

MCQ

Father of Human genetics is

A
H.G Khurana
B
Sir Archibald Garrod
C
Gregor Mendel
D
Charles Darwin

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Answer

(c) Gregor Mendel
Explanation: Gregor John Mendel is considered as the father of genetics as he laid down the principles or laws of inheritance
for the first time. Though his works were based on plants but the laws governing inheritance patterns are also applicable to
humans and hence we call them as “ Mendel's Laws of Inheritance”.

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