Pioneers of Genetics: Darwin and Mendel: Multiple Choice

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01Which other British naturalist independently conceived of the theory of evolution through natural selection and co-published a paper with Darwin in 1858?
02Gregor Mendel conducted his famous experiments on heredity using which type of plant?
03Charles Darwin's groundbreaking 1859 book that introduced the theory of evolution by natural selection is titled 'On the Origin of __________'.
04Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment states that alleles for different traits are distributed to sex cells __________ of one another.
05Due to his foundational work, Gregor Mendel is often referred to as the 'Father of Modern __________'.
06Mendel described hereditary factors as being either __________, meaning they are always expressed, or __________, meaning their effect is masked.
07Which of Mendel's laws states that allele pairs separate during gamete formation and randomly unite at fertilization?
08Besides his groundbreaking work in genetics, what was Gregor Mendel's primary profession?
09The term Darwin used to describe the process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring is called:
10Observations of different species of which bird on the Galápagos Islands were particularly influential in the development of Darwin's theory?
11Mendel's work, published in 1866, was largely ignored by the scientific community until it was rediscovered around what year?
12What was the name of the ship on which Charles Darwin conducted his famous five-year voyage, leading to his theory of evolution?