Answer:
Mendel
selected garden pea as his experimental material because it had the following
advantages:
(i)
The pea plants showed a number of well defined contrasting characters.
(ii)
It has perfect bisexual flowers containing both male and female parts. The
flowers are predominantly self pollinating.
(iii)
Because of self fertilization, plants are homozygous. It is, therefore, easy to
get pure lines for several generations.
(iv)
It is an annual plant. Its short life cycle made it possible to study several
generations within a short period.
(v)
It is easy to cultivate.
(vi)
It is easy to cross because pollen from one plant can be introduced to the
stigma of another plant.
The flower and
fruit of garden pea A. Pea flower; B. Petals are shown opened, then removed in
an enlarged view of the reproductive structures of flower and lower right a pea
pod (partly cut).
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