Gregor Mendel, through his work on pea plants, discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent. Mendel tracked the segregation of parental genes and their appearance in the offspring as dominant or recessive traits.
No, that is because a living thing would need to reproduce, and also include living cells. When you remove the pedals, it will rot after a bit and then eventually die completely.
