To maintain a line of pure-breeding peas, selective breeders would use a technique called artificial cross-pollination. This is a technique were breeders transfer pollen from the anthers of one pea plant (male parent) to a stigma of a flower (female parent).
This technique was developed by Gregor Mendel, the founder of the science of genetics. He was a monk who dedicated his time in research about how genes of plants are carried over through specific species. In his controlled experiment he used the pea plant because they are cheap and readily available from merchants who sold them in different classifications. He also used pea plants because they have the capacity to self-pollinate or cross-pollinate.
In science, a theory is a hypothesis, and a law is a statement of a observed phenomenon proven to be true.
- A theory explains why a natural phenomenon occurs.
- Scientific laws summarize a set of observations about a natural phenomenon that was witnessed.
- Both can be revised, used to make predictions, and are based off of a hypothesis.
Answer:
sexual reproduction
Explanation:
The type of reproduction in which the ovum and the pollen of a flower fuse together is refer to as sexual reproduction.
<u>The ovum of a flower is equivalent to the female reproductive part while the pollen is equivalent to the male's reproductive part. During fertilization, the female reproductive part (the ovum) fuses with the male's reproductive part (the pollen) to produce a zygote.</u>
