Question

Why did Gregor Mendel choose garden green peas for his experiment?

Answer 1

Reason why Mendel has chosen Garden Pea for experiment:

• It contains parts of male and female known as perfect bisexual flowers.

• The crop- pollination is easy in this plant because one plant pollen can be introduced to another plant stigma by extracting anthers

• It is an annual plant with a short life cycle.

• Pea plants produces a large number of seeds in single generation.

• The flowers are self-pollinating and pure line for several generations is easy in this flower.

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Answer 2

Gregor Mendel chose the pea plants for his experiments because the garden pea is an ideal subject in the study of genetics for the following reasons:

presence of observable traits with contrasting forms

produces many offspring in one cross

short life cycle

ease in manipulating pollination (cross-pollination)

Pea plants had the following characteristics:-

plants were sexually reproducing with bisexual flowers

self-pollination and self-fertilization is possible

the life cycle was completed in one season

hybrids were perfectly fertile

many varieties with well-defined characters were available i.e. presence of seven pairs of contrasting or allelomorphic characters

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