why did mendel select pea plant for his experiment ?
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Mendel can choose some other plant for experiments but he selected pea plant due to following reasons:
Easy to Cultivate: Pea plant (Pisum sativum) was easy to cultivate. It grew well in his garden.
Hermaphrodite: Its flowers were hermaphrodite I.e. pea plant have both male and female sexual organs.
Cross-fertilization (Cross-Pollination) Easily Controlled: It was normally self-fertilizing (self-pollinating) that is the fertilization of plants and some invertebrate animals by their own pollen or sperm rather than that of another individual, but could also be cross fertilized (cross-pollinated) that is the transfer of pollen grains from an anther of a flower of one plant to a stigma of a flower of another plant of the same species.
Short Generation Time: As the time gap between generations was short, Mendel could raise many generations of pea within a short time. This is one of the main reason for choosing Pea plant (Pisum sativum).
Easy to Cultivate: Pea plant (Pisum sativum) was easy to cultivate. It grew well in his garden.
Hermaphrodite: Its flowers were hermaphrodite I.e. pea plant have both male and female sexual organs.
Cross-fertilization (Cross-Pollination) Easily Controlled: It was normally self-fertilizing (self-pollinating) that is the fertilization of plants and some invertebrate animals by their own pollen or sperm rather than that of another individual, but could also be cross fertilized (cross-pollinated) that is the transfer of pollen grains from an anther of a flower of one plant to a stigma of a flower of another plant of the same species.
Short Generation Time: As the time gap between generations was short, Mendel could raise many generations of pea within a short time. This is one of the main reason for choosing Pea plant (Pisum sativum).
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The advantages of using pea (Pisum sativum) for experimental breeding work are:
Easy to grow in a range of climates
Relatively fast generation time
Variable in easily scored traits (flower colour, hairs, pod morphology)
Easy to control pollination and hand-pollinate
Self-fertile, so that through inbreeding, lines can be developed that are genetically homogenous for particular traits
We cannot know how many of these factors Mendel deliberately considered, but in breeding something like 28,000 plants in his time, he must have appreciated most of them.
Easy to grow in a range of climates
Relatively fast generation time
Variable in easily scored traits (flower colour, hairs, pod morphology)
Easy to control pollination and hand-pollinate
Self-fertile, so that through inbreeding, lines can be developed that are genetically homogenous for particular traits
We cannot know how many of these factors Mendel deliberately considered, but in breeding something like 28,000 plants in his time, he must have appreciated most of them.
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