(a) Why did Mendel choose pea plants for conducting his experiments on inheritance?
(b) State Mendel's second law of inheritance.
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A.
Mendel picked common garden pea plants for the focus of his research because they can be grown easily in large numbers and their reproduction can be manipulated. ... In his experiments, Mendel was able to selectively cross-pollinate purebred plants with particular traits and observe the outcome over many generations.
B. Genes Sort Independently
Mendel's second law is also known as the law of independent assortment. It states that the alleles of one gene sort into the gametes independently of the alleles of another gene.
(a) ❥ Mendel selected garden pea for his experiment for following reasons :-
⚝ The life span of this plant is very short so results can be obtained and studied faster.
⚝ Garden pea had many characteristics which are in constant to each other.
⚝ Moreover this plant is small, easy to grow and reproduce large number of offsprings.
(b) The law of independent assortment states that a pair of trait segregates independently of another pair during gamete formation. As the individual heredity factors assort independently, different traits get equal opportunity to occur together.