Gregor Mendel ____

a. discovered the structure of DNA
b. claimed that each individual carries a pair of "factors" for a given trait
c. demonstrated that traits carried by parents are “blended” in their offspring
d. cross-bred thirty different species of pea plants over a span of fifty years
e. reasoned that each parent carries one gene for a specific trait


ANSWER: b

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