Question

write any three difficulties Mendel would have faced if he carried his experiment on human instead of pea plants.​

Answer 1

Answer:

• There would have been various problems like the difficulty in breeding, etc if Mendel would have used humans as his subject for experiments instead of peas.

Explanation:

• For formulating the laws of inheritance, Mendel used the pea plant for his experimental object.

• It would have been very difficult for Mendel if he had used human subjects for his experiments.

• The first problem would have been the difficulty in breeding human beings because human beings with all their feelings and emotions cannot be forced to breed against their will.

• The second problem would have been the long life span of humans. It takes approximately 9 months for a human baby to come to the world, and it takes another 14- 15 years for the baby to reach the reproductive age. So, for even a test cross he would have to wait for about 15 years to get the results.

• The third problem is the complexity of human genome. Human beings have multiple alleles for controlling same functions like the blood group. For skin colour too there are more complex genes. So, it would have been difficult to find the desired characters.

• These are some of the reasons why the experiments conducted by Mendel would be a failure if he had chosen human beings as his experimental subject.

Answer 2

Answer: Well it would be impossible for Mendel to use humans instead of pea plants

Explanation: 1) Humans have very long life cycle the characters can also be seen later on in life, like you can develop habits of your parents and look of your parents after puberty.

2) Humans need a breeding partner the breed between siblings have very low chance to survive.

3) Humans are very hard to handle.

Bonus one : The contrasting characters of human are very vast which are hard to keep record on.