Gregory Mendel and Inheritence?

Question

Ok... I need three reasons as to why Mendel chose pea plants for his experiments. So far I have:

1. Pea plants grow fast
2. He could control which pollinated with which

Can someone please tell me the third reason??

Answer 1

Peas have easily observable traits which occur in two distinct forms (which turned out to be controlled by single pairs of genes with simple dominance.)

Answer 2

Pea plants can also self-fertilize. In other words, one parent can produce offspring by itself. Which can be a REALLY handy trait to see the variety of genes that are in one parent, and in producing pure breeds.

It helps also that pea plants have lots of different traits. It wouldn't have been a good choice if they were all more or less the same.

Last, but not least, he lived in a monestary. Most monestaries of the time strove to be self-sufficient, so it is all but certain that his monstery ALREADY had substantial gardens and pea plants. No point searching around when what you need is already right there!

Answer 3

Many of the peas' traits can be studied easily (e.g. texture, color, size). The peas produce a lot of seeds - Mendel could easily find peas to work on. Peas do not have overlapping traits - Mendel could study wrinkliness/roundness, yellow/green color, and sizes independently.

Answer 4

The pea plants have single genes contributing to many characteristics. Ex, flower colour is controlled by only one gene.

Answer 5

nicely, this could advise that the purebread tall plant life have the dominant allele and short is a recessive allele. So, if tall is TT and short is tt, and you combine a organic tall and a organic short TT x tt, each and every of the offspring would be Tt and the dominant trait would be expressed, that's being tall.