Practice mode Plant Breeding and Genetics

Who first recorded a mutation?

Correct answer B. Wright (1791)

Explanation

In 1791 Seth Wright noticed a short-legged ram lamb in his flock in Massachusetts and bred the Ancon sheep from it, the earliest recorded mutation in livestock.

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