What advantages did Mendel enjoy by choosing to study the garden pea?

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What advantages did Mendel enjoy by choosing to study the garden pea?

Answer 1

1-Pisum sativum is visibly variable and is predominantly self-pollinated, which means different true breeding lines are easy to develop.
2-The peas were domesticated with easily distinguishable traits from their wild counterparts. The fortune was that 7 distinct traits were not linked by being on the same chromosome, they assort independently.
3-Peas have a number of their traits with complete dominance not blended (incomplete), codominant, or multi-allelic.


Wild peas have pods that open to spill the seeds, they are dehiscent. They have dormancy period so the seeds will not germinate together. They are tall with many basal branches. The seeds have poor taste, color, and texture. Their flowering is triggered by long day length. Domestic peas do not have pods that open (indehiscent) and seed dormancy is lacking so they germinate together. The plants are dwarf with few basal branches. The seed quality is superior in taste, color and texture. Flowering is day neutral they lack photoperiodicity.
Do any of these traits sound familiar? Tall versus dwarf, seed coat wrinkled versus round.
Mendel was working with the traits that form the basis of pea domestication from the wild type. In fact the entire domestic legume family show similar changes from their wild counterparts. Plants had been selected over such a long time there were strains of domesticated pea (Pisum sativum) showing the characteristic features of domestication (e.g. smooth seed coats) clearly evident in archaeological sites that date back to 6500 BC.

Answer 2

Mendel was lucky to happen on a plant with many genes that segregate in a simple way. Most character traits are controlled by many genes, so much so that when they teach Mendelian inheritance in schools they have to use examples like cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anaemia rather than, say, eye or hair colour. Many plants, especially crop plants, have incredibly complicated genetics so Mendel happened on a good one. Plus they are quite easy to grow and bear fruit quite quickly, he'd only have got one harvest a year if he'd chosen something like apples. Other advantages, I think gardening improves anyone's quality of life!

Answer 3

Well he discovered genetic traits with using different colored pea plants. Other advantages enjoyed by him? I don't know, getting away from the other monks while he was gardening?

Answer 4

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