Which of the following observations refutes the theory of blending inheritance?
A) When a red plant is crossed with a white plant, the resulting offspring are pink.
B) Most of the features of offspring are not intermediates of their parents' traits.
C) Gametes carrying different types of alleles cannot fuse successfully.
D) After meiosis, two copies of a given gene end up in the same gamete.

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The observation that most of the features of offspring are not intermediates of their parents' traits refutes the theory of blending inheritance, which proposes that parental traits are mixed and blended together in offspring.

Which of the Following Observations Refutes the Theory of Blending