Question

The scientist who worked on garden pea before Mendel was
A. Gross
B. Kolreuter
C. Bateson
D. Maupertuis

Answer 1

Hint: The scientist was an English man and was the senior book editor and critic of The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. Scientist Alexander Sewton is also with him for this research work.

Complete answer: Mendel is the father of genetics.
His work on pea plants left a remark in the field of genetics.
Mendel concluded with the laws of inheritance and law of independent assortment from his experiments.
On the research work of Mendel on pea plants, he took references of articles on pea crossing experiments that were previously done by Scientist John Goss and Alexander Sewton.
They made hybrids from different varieties of pea plants for their experiments before Mendel did.

Additional information: Scientist Maupertuis was a famous mathematician and he determined the shape of the earth.
Scientist Bateson was an English Biologist and he was the first person to coin the term genetics to define the branch of science – heredity.
Kolreuter was a famous Botanist. He defined the plant fertilization.

So, the correct answer is option A. Gross.

Note: The experiments of Mendel on pea plants give rise the phenotypic ratio 3:1 and genotypic ratio 1:2:1 in F2 generation in case of a monohybrid cross where tree height is the considered character and 9:3:3:1 and 1:2:2:4:1:2:1:2:1 ratio respectively in dihybrid cross where the characters were seed color and seed shape.