1.seed shape
2.seed color
3.seed coat color
4.pod color
5.pod shape
6.flower position
7.stem length
Gregor Mendel studied pea plants to understand how traits are inherited. He used pea plants because they have easily observable traits that can be controlled for breeding experiments, making them ideal for studying patterns of inheritance. Mendel's work with pea plants laid the foundation for modern genetics.
To study genetics, traits, and the behaviors of those traits.
Sweet Pea having seven contrasting traits.
When pea plants are true-breeding, it means that they consistently produce offspring with the same traits as the parents. This indicates that the plants are homozygous for the specific traits being studied.
Gregor Mendel was observing traits such as seed shape, flower color, plant height, and pod shape in his experiments on pea plants.
discontinuous traits in pea plants
Mendel studied pea plants. He chose strains that bred true for traits like pea color, flower color, and height. By crossing plants that bred true for these traits he was able to determine that offspring were not a "blend" of their parents and that traits were passed on by what we now know as genes in patterns that could be predicted from one generation to the next.
P1 or parental
sex
sex
Gregor Mendel worked with pea plants in his experiments on inheritance and genetics. He specifically focused on garden pea plants (Pisum sativum) with specific contrasting traits that were easy to observe and track through generations.
one way that humans are more complex than pea plants that mendel studied is that many human traits are affected by several different genes, whereas the traits of the peas are affected by generally only one gene.