Give three reasons why mendel chosePea plants (pisum sativum) for his experiments.
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(a) Mendel selected garden pea plant for his experiments because of the following characteristics:
(i) The flowers of this plant are bisexual.
(ii) They are self-pollinating, and thus, self and cross pollination can easily be performed.
(iii) The different physical characteristics were easy to recognise and study.
(iv) They have a shorter life span and are the plants are easier to maintain.
(b) According to Mendel's law of independent assortment, during the inheritance of two or more characters, the assortment of individual traits takes place independently during gamete formation. Thus each allele of a pair segregates independently and each gamete formed contains one allele of that trait. This law is inapplicable for linked genes.
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Reasons are :-
- Easy to grow in the garden.
- The flowers of pea plants are hermaphrodite, i.e flowers have bisexual characteristics.
- Easy to obtain pure breed plant through self-fertilization.
- The generation time of pea plants is less.
- They have excellent disease resistance and have an optimal rate of survival.
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