Mention the advantages of selecting pea plant for experiment by Mendel.
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Answer:
pea plant is having different characters.
Explanation:
can be easily identify the changes and it is self polinating
AnSwer :
Mendel solected pea planta to carry out his study on the inheritance of characters from parents to offspring
He selected a pea plants because of the following features :
(a) peas hava many visibie contrasting characters such as tall /dwarf plants, rounf/wrinkled seeds, green/yelow pod,purple/white flowers. etc.
(b) peas have bisexual flowers and therefore undergo self pollination easily. Thus, pea plants produce offspring with same traits generation after generation.
(c) in pea plarts. cross pollination can be easily achieved by emancutation in which the state of the flower is removed without affecting the pistil.
(d) pea plants have a short time span and produce many seed in one generation.