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Principles Of Inheritance And Variation

Question
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The idea of mutations was brought forth by

  • Hugo de Vries, who worked on evening primrose

  • Gregor Mendel, who worked on Pisum sativum

  • Hardy Weinberg, who worked on allele frequencies in a population

  • Charles Darwin, Who observed a wide variety of organisms during sea voyage

Solution

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Hugo de Vries, who worked on evening primrose

Hugo de Vries worked on evening primrose (Oenothera lamarckiana) and put forward the idea of mutation. 
Gregor Mendel worked on Pisum sativum and listed principles of genetics. 
Charles Darwin observed a wide variety of organisms and proposed theory of natural selection.