Question

For centuries, people have been selectively breeding plants and animals to have certain desirable traits. Gregor Mendel predicted the existence of units of hereditary information that control those traits. What do we call those units of hereditary today?

(A) Chromosomes
(B) Proteins
(C) Genes
(D) Nuclei

Answer 1

The answer would be C. Genes

Answer 2

The correct answer would be (C) genes.

Genes are known as the unit of heredity which codes for traits of different characters of the organism.

They are the coding sequence of the DNA strand that is, they code for a particular protein.

They are generally present in pairs, one come from mother while other comes from father. These alternative forms are termed as alleles.