Gregor Mendel's work with hereditary traits of pea plants
A. confirmed the paint-pot theory of inheritance.
B. was the basis for Darwin's theory of evolution.
C. led to the formulation of the law of independent assortment.
D. discredited the phenomenon of balanced polymorphism.
E. proved that natural selection operates on genotypes.
Question 2
Why are genetics and evolution so important to anthropology?
A. They give anthropology some credibility as a scientific field.
B. They provide the key to understanding the rate of environmental change throughout human history.
C. They define humans' position at the top of the hierarchy of biological diversity.
D. They help anthropologists document and explain human biological diversity.
E. They determine the clear distinction between biological and cultural forces acting through human history.
Ancestral versus shared derived characters involving morphological traits.
Male and female plants
Gregor Mendel
Plants
Herbivores exploit plants
The segregation of albinism, a recessively inherited trait in humans. As in pea plants, alleles of a