question_answer 62)

  Had Darwin been aware of Mendel's work would he been able to explain the origin of variations. Discuss,

Answer:

                  Yes, had Darwin been aware of Mendel's work, he would have been able to explain the origin of variations. Darwins observation of different forms of an individual in a population could be related to the presence of different forms of alleles of a gene, The gene express as the most adaptive traits are selected naturally and become more abundant than those that are expressed as less adaptive traits. Over the time, the accumulation of these traits might change the species to an extent that it develops into a new one and adapted to the specific environment.