Why did mendel study the pea plant?

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Answer 1

Mendel studied pea plants to learn about inheritance.

"This study showed that one in four pea plants had purebred recessive alleles, two out of four were hybrid and one out of four were purebred dominant. His experiments brought forth two generalizations which later became known as Mendel's Laws of Inheritance." wikipedia

"In one experiment, Mendel crossed purple-flowered pea plants with white-flowered pea plants. This is an example of a monohybrid cross, a pairing in which the parent plants differ in only one (mono) character. Mendel saw that the F1 hybrid plants were not a blend of purple and white. The F1 hybrids all had purple flowers, the same color as the purple-flowered parent. Was the factor for white flowers now lost as a result of the crossing? By allowing the F1 plants to self-fertilize, Mendel found the answer to be no. About one fourth of the F2 plants had white flowers. Mendel concluded that the factor for white flowers did not disappear in the F1 plants. Instead, only the purple flower factor was affecting F1 flower color. He reasoned that the F1 plants must have carried two factors for the flower color character, one for purple and one for white. Today, Mendel's "factors" are called genes." Taken from my bio textbook

Answer 2

Mendel started out studying rats, but the head monk at his home said he had to get rid of the gross things. Then he started using pea plants because they were easy to grow, clean, and the traits very simple and straight forward, no multi gene determined traits, such as if it had x(recessive) and X(dominant) the X gene would be the phenotype. Also they were easy to pollinate and wouldn't be pollinated if he didn't want them to.

Answer 3

he's intrest in garding

No, Gregor Mendel didn't use pea plants because he's interested in gardening... whoever put that useless garbage up there really should learn some common sense. He used them mostly because they multiply and mature at a fast rate- faster than humans can anyway.

Answer 4

it was commercially avalible throughout europe,

easy to grow, matured quickly, and they allowed mendal to control which plants reproduce because they self-pollinate or fertilize eggs with pollen from the same flower

Answer 5

to study genetics!