why Mendel selected pea plant for is hybridization experiment
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The hybridization experiments were conducted by Mendel on around 29,000 pea plants. He chose pea plants because they had easily observable traits. The Law of independent assortment states that the inheritance of one character is always independent of the inheritance of other characters within the same individual
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Mendel selected pea plants to carry out his study on the inheritance of characters from parents to offspring.
He selected a pea plant because of the following features:
- Peas have many visible contrasting characters such as tall/dwarf plants, round/wrinkled seeds, green/yellow pod, purple/white flowers, etc.
- Peas have bisexual flowers and therefore undergo self pollination easily. Thus, pea plants produce offspring with same traits generation after generation.
- In pea plants, cross pollination can be easily achieved by emasculation in which the stamen of the flower is removed without affecting the pistil.
- Pea plants have a short life span and produce many seeds in one generation.
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