The correct term is "true-breeding". What that means is that if he takes his two pea plants with white flowers and breeds them together, he will always get a pea plant with white flowers. Something that is true-breeding for a particular trait is homozygous, i.e. if the allele for red flowers is R and the allele for white flowers is w, then a true-breeding white flowering plant is ww, and true-breeding red flowering plant is RR.
If you cross-breed a true-breeding red flowering with a true-breeding white flowering plant, you would get 1/4 of the offspring as true-breeding red flowers, 1/4 of the off-spring as true-breeding white flowers, and 1/2 the offspring as heterozygous (not true-breeding) red flowers - Rw. If you don't start with true-breeding plants - say you start with Rw and ww (a red and a white plant) you get 1/2 the offspring heterozygous red, and 1/2 true-breeding white. Thus if you didn't know anymore, you would assume that half the time when you breed a red and a white plant, you would get a red plant, and half the time a white, which is incorrect. Furthermore, if you conducted the experiment again, say with RR and Rw, you would get a different result (in this case, all red). By starting with plants that are true-breeding, you ensure that you get the same results that properly show how the traits are passed on.
Gregor Mendel took two different colored pea plants: one had traits for white plants and the other had traits for a red plant. When Mendel cross bred the two plants, a plant with traits for a pink plant grew. This is how Mendel contributed to the understanding of inherited traits.
A purebred.
Crossing one purebred plant (usually the same species) with another purebred plant will produce a hybrid.
Gregor Mendel used pea plants for his hereditary experiments
Pea Plant
purebred
If the pea plant has the genetic to be small in the homozygous state, then it will be and conversely so. One of Mendel's experiments was to cross the purebred tall with the purebred small to see which trait was dominant. The allele for tallness is dominant in the pea plant,.
Gregor Mendel took two different colored pea plants: one had traits for white plants and the other had traits for a red plant. When Mendel cross bred the two plants, a plant with traits for a pink plant grew. This is how Mendel contributed to the understanding of inherited traits.
A purebred.
Mendel studied plant inheritance.
Crossing one purebred plant (usually the same species) with another purebred plant will produce a hybrid.
Crossing one purebred plant (usually the same species) with another purebred plant will produce a hybrid.
it gives him a more accurate description of the living plant.
Gregor Mendel used pea plants for his hereditary experiments
Pea Plant
purebred plants
garden pea plant