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A man who is an achondroplastic dwarf with normal vision marries a color-blind woman of normal height. The man's father was 6 feet tall, and both the woman's parents were of average height. Achondroplastic dwarfism is autosomal dominant, and red-green color blindness is X-linked recessive.
-What was the most significant conclusion that Gregor Mendel drew from his experiments with pea plants?


A) There is considerable genetic variation in garden peas.
B) Traits are inherited in discrete units, and are not the results of the "blending" of traits.
C) Recessive genes occur more frequently in the F1 generation than do dominant ones.
D) Genes are composed of DNA.
E) An organism that is homozygous for many recessive traits is at a disadvantage.

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