Why do Mendel use pea to do the hereditary experiment?
2006-12-16 22:55:14 · 6 answers · asked by Princess Selina 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Mendel was an abbot and he has a huge garden. Actually he noticed that peas have different height and some other characteristics. So, this got him interested to use the pea plant as an experiment. In the first place, he never thought that it could have something got to do with heredity. He was thinking of probably some pattern in the growth of pea.
With that in mind, he went on to growing pea plants and made a statistic out of it. So, you can say that it came off as an interest from him as he see his pea plants having different characteristics.
2006-12-17 00:27:40 · answer #1 · answered by PIPI B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mendel grew up in what is today called the Czech republic. Then and now it is a good agricultural land area. Along with basic education, he and other kids at his school received agricultural training. And later on in his life when he went on to teach at a monastary, the monks were growing several different plants for research. He took pea plants because they were available in mnay varities, like one could be purple, and the other could be white. Also, he could strictly control which plants would mate with which. He then chose to track down one characteristic of the pea plant and study it.
2006-12-17 12:05:58 · answer #2 · answered by madeulo0k 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gregory Mendel used pea plants to experiment on Genetics and Heredity because the pea plants are easy to grow and they show big differentiation and contrast in their physical characteristics.
2006-12-16 23:20:28 · answer #3 · answered by markynjared 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Peas are relatively easy to grow, have short life spans, and large genetic diversity. (Mendel may not have known the cause of these variations but knew they were present.) This, along with the fact that they breed almost exactly as a medelin square predicts, makes peas a prime canidate for basic genetic research. (Some traits don't follow the simple mendelin square as serveral genes are involved. No single pairs of alleles are responsible for these traits.)
2006-12-16 23:05:21 · answer #4 · answered by Mervin DePervin 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the first thing is that it takes a short time for peas to grow
the second is that the characteristics of peas is strongly contrast
which makes it easier for doing experiment
2006-12-16 23:01:48 · answer #5 · answered by James Chan 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was a monk and in Austria the monks had their own garden.
In order to make statistics, you must have a lot of data. So ,it is more convenient to use plants which are not too big
2006-12-16 23:22:19 · answer #6 · answered by maussy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋