Question

How do Mendel's experiments show that traits are inherited independently??

and

difference between inherited and acquired trait????

Answer 1

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It is observed that progeny of tall plants with round seeds and short plant with wrinkled seeds bears the progeny of all tall and round seeds in F1 generation . When F2 generation this dihybrid cross is raised it was observed that some F2 progeny are tall plants with round seeds and some were short plants with wrinkled seeds. New mixtures also appeared like tall plants and wrinkled seeds and short plant and round seeds. Thus tall/short trait and round wrinkled seeds traits are independently inherited.
INHERITED Trait : such characters are transmitted from parents to offsprings.
ACQUIRED traits: such characters appears in individual's life time but are not inherited to next generation.

Answer 2

Acquiring characteristics or traits from one generation to the other is nothing but inheritance. Here, both the parents contribute equally to the inheritance of traits. ... He conducted his experiments on pea plants to show the inheritance of traits in living organism