Mendel work remains unrecognised and no credit was given to Mendel for his work until rediscovery of Mendel laws. Three scientist who independently rediscovered Mendel’s work were:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns and Von Tschermak
Mendel published his work in 1865, but it stayed unrecognised until 1900. In that year Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns and Erich von Tschermak each independently rediscovered his results.
(1) Hugo de Vries, Walter Sutton and Theodore Boveri — Incorrect. Sutton and Boveri worked on chromosomes. They showed that chromosomes behave like Mendel’s factors.
(2) Franklin Stahl, T.H. Morgan and Von Tschermak — Incorrect. Stahl worked on DNA replication, and Morgan on linkage in fruit flies.
(3) Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns and Von Tschermak — Correct. These are the three rediscoverers.
(4) T.H. Morgan, Carl Correns and Charles Darwin — Incorrect. Darwin proposed natural selection. He did not work on Mendel’s laws.
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