One Important Conclusion of Mendel's Genetic Studies with Pea Plants

Multiple Choice

One important conclusion of Mendel's genetic studies with pea plants is ____.

A) mutation is the only important factor in change
B) genes controlling traits do not blend during inheritance, but are transmitted as discrete entities
C) the traits that an organism inherits are the average of the two alleles
D) if particular traits do not appear in each generation, they are lost from the species
E) once a trait becomes recessive, it is lost to the population forever