Because it was self pollinated in nature. It has short life cycle and a number of plants could be grown in small area. Also it has short life span and varible phenotypic characters.
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Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel used pea plants to discover genetics and its principles.
he was famous for the pea plant
test on pea plant
pea plants show very different traits that are easy to tell apart and they grow relatively fast
HeredityHe used them to study genetics (the passing down of traits).
Gregor Mendel used pea plants (Pisum sativum) to study heredity.
Gregor Mendel used a paintbrush to transfer pollen from the stamen of one pea plant to the pistil of another, enabling controlled cross-pollination. He also used self-pollination techniques when studying pea plant traits.
Gregor Mendel used traditional manual methods such as cross-pollination and careful record-keeping for his pea plant experiments. He observed the patterns of inheritance by systematically breeding pea plants with specific traits over multiple generations. Mendel's experiments laid the foundation for modern genetics.
Mendel is famous for his work with pea plants. These experiments led to the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment. Several different pea-plant traits were used in his experiments, including seed type and flower colour.
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