Why did gregor mendel use peas in his experiments?
a.) peas grow very slowly.
b.) pea reproduction cannot be controlled.
c.) peas normally produce very few offspring.
d.) peas have characteristics that have two forms.

The answer would be D. Peas have characteristics that have two forms.

D.) Peas have characteristics that have two forms.

Explanation:

Gregor Mendel was an European monk who was referred to as the Father of Genetics due to his massive contribution to discovering the principles that governs heredity. Mendel performed several experiments to be able to discover these principles. Mendel worked closely with pea plants (Pisium sativum) in his experiments.

He chose to work with pea plants because of the characteristics the plant has, which made it easy to perform his experiments. These characteristics include their easy cultivation, large numbers, monoecious nature making them able to self pollinate etc. However, in addition to all these characteristics, Mendel considered choosing pea plants because they possessed easily observable traits. One fascinating thing is that each trait has two alternative forms e.g Flower colour trait (Purple/White) , Seed shape trait (Round/Wrinkled)

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