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Pea plants (leguminosae) have an irregular flower in which the top part of the corolla is much larger than the lower part (Hitchcock and CronquistFlora of the Pacific Northwest p228). If you haven't ever seen a pea flower, it looks much like a snap dragon bloom. This feature keeps the flowers from freely pollinating each other by wind, as they are tightly shut. If protected from pollinating insects, they will only self pollinate, or if the anthers are clipped off they can be very selectively pollinated by a person. This gave Mendel much tighter control over the crossbreeding of the plants.
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∙ 9y agoGregor Mendel is well-known for his experiments with pea plants to study genetics and heredity. He chose pea plants for their variety of unique and observable traits, such as pea color, plant height, flower color, and pod shape.
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∙ 14y agoMendal selected pea plant for his observation for the following advantages- i) Though the flowers of the pea plant are bisexual, yet the artificial cross-pollination can be done in the well defined varieties. ii) Hybrid plants of the pea plant are fertile. ii) Life span is short (annual), so hybridization experiments canbe carried out in manny generations. iii) The maintaing of records is easy due to the fact that the characters (7) he choosed was easy to visualize and study
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∙ 10y agoBecause...
1. They are cheap and easy to grow
2. They have easily disconcered charactoristics
3. They grow fast (so he could have multiple generations in a short amount of time)
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∙ 14y agoOMG! We just learned about this!
Because they only have 2 traits - Tall and short
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The plant used by Mendel for his experiment?
Gregor Mendel used pea plants for his hereditary experiments
What animal did Gregor Mendel study?
he did not study animals, he is famous for his experiments with pea plants.
What organism did gregor mendel use to conduct his experiment?
He used pea plants for his genetics experiment.
What was Gregor Mendels main experiments?
Gregor Mendel's main experiments all had stuff to do with heredity, like why you can have a total different appearance from your parents. He did his experiments on peas
Who discovered Chromosome theory of inheritance?
The rules were worked out in the middle years of the nineteenth century by an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel, who devised them after conducting an extensive series of experiments on garden peas.
Mendel carefully his experiments and the peas he used?
Controlled
What did Mendel's experiments on peas provide?
Evidence that characteristics are passed in predictable ratios
Who was gregor Mendel and what experimants is he famous for?
He is the father of genetics. He is famous for his experiments with peas.
What were gregor Mendel's experiments and the results?
He tested on garden peas and pisums. He was very successful in his studies.
The plant used by Mendel for his experiment?
Gregor Mendel used pea plants for his hereditary experiments
What animal did Gregor Mendel study?
he did not study animals, he is famous for his experiments with pea plants.
Why Mendel choose gardenpea in his experiment?
mendel worked in a monastery that was already studying garden peas. because they were readily available to him he experimented with them
Mendel carefully blank his experiments and the peas he used?
Look up HEREDITY. IT will tell you about genetics, genes, and more.
Where does the term purebreeding come from?
Gregor Mendel used the term "purebred" in his experiments on the genetics of peas to describe the homozygous nature of the peas for a particular trait, e.g. roundness or wrinkledness.
What organism did gregor mendel use to conduct his experiment?
He used pea plants for his genetics experiment.
What was Gregor Mendels main experiments?
Gregor Mendel's main experiments all had stuff to do with heredity, like why you can have a total different appearance from your parents. He did his experiments on peas
What did Mendel used for his experiments?
Gregor Mendel used pea plants for his hereditary experiments
