Why did Mendel select garden pea for his experiments? Explain the characteristics of pea.
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Mendel selected pea plant because they were easy to cultivate
They were self pollinating ND cross pollination was also successfull
They have a number of traits to study
They give a large number of offspring, so The variation can be easily observe ..
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( if uh are in 12 th then the reasons are clearly mentioned in the ncert)
The reason behind the selection of garden pea for Mendel's experiment are -
i) Pea plant had the ability to produce seeds in large numbers within 1 generation.
ii) Maintaining and handling and raising these plants were easy and convenient.
iii) Many contrasting characters were present in this plant which was useful in the experiment.
The characters of pea are -
i) This plants produced flowers that are of bisexual kind.
ii) They possess the ability of pollinating ownself.
iii) They had contrasting traits of the characters like height of the stem, color of the pod as well as seed, shape of the pod and also of seed.