Question

why did mendel select a pea plant for his experiment?

Answer 1

Mendel took advantage of this property to produce true-breeding pea lines: he self-fertilized and selected peas for many generations until he got lines that consistently made offspring identical to theparent (e.g., always short). Pea plants arealso easy to cross, or mate in a controlled way.


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Answer 2

Peas were an ideal choice for Mendel to use because they had easily observable traits there were 7 of which he could manipulate. He began his experiments on peas with two conditions. The conditions were:
1) possess constant differentiating characteristics.
2) hybrids of such plants, during flowering period be protected from the influence of all foreign pollen.
The second condition was used to protect from an accidental impregnation thus would cause misleading results. Mendel planned to selectively cross pollinate the peas with one another to study the traits passed on and the results from each pollination. He acquired about 34 varieties of peas and chose 22 different types to conduct his experiments with which varied in color and size.The first generation of the hybrids produced a 3:1 ratio where there were 3 plants showing dominant traits and 1 showing recessive. The second generation produces a 2:1:1 ratio. This showed there was one with the recessive trait, two with hybrid trait and one with dominant trait.