Why did Mendel choose pea plant for his experiments?

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(a) Easy to grow (b) Short life span (c) Easily distinguishable characters (d) Larger size of flower (e) Self pollinated

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Mendel choose pea plant for his experiments for the following reasons 

  • Pea plants are easy to grow 
  • They have short life span 
  • They got larger size flower 
  • Pea plants are self-pollinated
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Gregor Mendel chose pea plant because the garden pea is an ideal subject in the study of genetics for the following reasons:

(i) They grow quickly.

(ii) They have a short life-cycle.

(iii) They are easily self- and cross-pollinated and produces many offspring in one cross.

(iv) They have easily observed characteristics.

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If a round, green seeded pea plant (RR yy) is crossed with wrinkled, yellow seeded pea plant, (rr YY) the seeds produced in F1 generation are

(a) round and yellow

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In one of his experiments with pea plants Mendel observed that when a pure tall pea plant is crossed with a pure dwarf pea plant,

(a) The dwarf traits of the plants is not expressed in the presence of the dominant tall trait. (b) In the F2 generation, both the tall and dwarf traits are present in...

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Write the genotypic ratio of F2 generation in a monohybrid cross that was carried out by Mendel in a pea plant.

1:2:1- Genotypic ratio

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List any two characters of Pea plants used by Mendel in his experiments other than height of the plant and the colour of the seed.

Flower colour / Flower position / Pod shape / Pod colour / Seed shape (Any two)

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When Morgan conducted dihybrid cross on Drosophila like Mendel did with pea plants,

- When two genes in a dihybrid cross were located on the same chromosome they did not segregate independently  - The proportion of parental gene combinations were much higher than non...

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List any two characters of Pea plants used by Mendel in his experiments other than height of the plant and the colour of the seed

Flower colour / Flower position / Pod shape / Pod colour / Seed shape

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When Morgan conducted dihybrid cross on Drosophila like Mendel did with pea plants,,

-When two genes in a dihybrid cross were located on the same chromosome they did not segregate independently - The proportion of parental gene combinations were much higher than non parental...

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If we cross-bred tall (dominant) pea plant with pure bred dwarf (recessive) pea plant,

(i) Tall (ii) 3:1 (iii) Dwarf Reason: Being a recessive trait, dwarfness can only be expressed in the absence of dominant trait/ in its pure form.

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Why did Nlendel choose garden pea for his experiments ? Write two reasons. (ii) List two contrasting visitrle characters of garden pea

(i) Mendel choose garden pea for his experiments because : (a) Pea plant is small and easy to grow (b) A large number of true breeding varieties of pea plant are available. (c)...

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Among the following characters, which one was not considered by Mendel in his experiments on pea ?

The correct answer is (1) During his experiments Mendel have taken seven characters in a pea plant. In which nature of trichromes i.e., gladular or nonglandular was not considered by Mendel.

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