Practice mode Plant Breeding and Genetics

Who laid the biometrical foundations for the study of quantitative genetics?

Correct answer D. Fisher

Explanation

R.A. Fisher, in his 1918 paper on the correlation between relatives, showed how continuous variation arises from many Mendelian genes and developed the statistics to analyse it.

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