What was Gregor Mendel's experiment with pea plants?
1 Answer
Mendel studied inheritance with his pea plants.
Explanation:
P GENERATION
Mendel chose pea plants as his specimen to study, as they exhibit distinctive traits that could be easily observed from one generation to the next (e.g. colour, height). Firstly, he ensured that each type bred true (e.g. only tall plants yield tall plants).
Once he had these purebred seeds, he mated the two opposing traits for each characteristic. Since pea plants self-pollinate, Mendel had to emasculate the flowers and transfer pollen manually.
F1 GENERATION
In crossing the two opposing traits, the resulting offspring was heterozygous. (For example,
F2 GENERATION
In this case, a
e.g.
#" " 1/4 "TT " : " "2/4 "Tt " : " " 1/4 "tt"#
Phenotypically, it was
e.g.
#" "75% "tall " : " "25% "short"#
