Question

Give some reasons why pea plant was chosen by Mendel for his experiment.

Answer 1

Mendel wanted to study and discover the process of how genetics work, so he decided to work on garden pea as working on garden pea will save time and helps to make study easier for him and to explain it to others.

Complete solution:
Mendel selected garden pea for his experiments due to the following characteristics:
- The first and the most important point which was there in the mind of Mendel while selecting garden pea is that garden peas need a shorter lifetime and are the plants that can be very easily taken care of.
- They're self-pollinating, because of which self and cross-pollination can easily be performed.
-The various physical characteristics in this plant were easy to recognize and study.
- The flowers of this plant are bisexual.
The 7 number of traits that Mendel studied in pea are listed below:
-Type of seed shape ,which means that whether the seed is– round or wrinkled
-Seed color – yellow or green
-Colour of flower – purple or white
-Pod shape – inflated or constricted
-Pod color – green or yellow
-Position of flowers – axial or terminal
-Length of stem – tall or dwarf
Mendel presented his results as seen in experiments in the year 1865 while experimenting on nearly 30,000 pea plants to the local natural history society, his results were based on the patterns which he observed, the counting data he has collected, and the mathematical analysis of his results.

Note:
Based on his experiments on the garden pea, Mendel proposed the law of inheritance. Mendel's laws of inheritance were three in number which includes the law of dominance, the law of segregation, and the law of independent assortment.