Question

What made the plant breeding studies performed by Mendel more successful than plant breeding studies performed by others?

Answer 1

Answer: Mendel's choice of garden peas for his studies

Explanation:

Mendel's chose garden peas for his plant breeding studies DUE to the easily distinguishable and discontinuous traits the plant possess.

This traits include:

- flower colour

- flower position

- seed colour

- seed shape

- pod colour

- pod shape

- plant height

He found each of these traits can be expressed as DOMINANT and RECESSIVE i.e they can be easily distinguished by everyone; so he chose garden peas for his plant breeding studies UNLIKE others who chose some other plants with less distinguishable traits

Answer 2

Answer:

Mendel is known as the father of genetics. He explains the laws of independent assortment, laws of segregation and concept of dominance in the pea plant.

He chose Pisum sativum that acts as a perfect model plant for the study of heredity. The plant have short life span, self pollination and cross pollination is also possible. No blending of characters in the pea plant and limited traits are present in the pea plant.