(a) Why did Mendel choose pea plants for conducting his experiments on inheritance? (b) State Mendel's second law of inheritance.
BiologyClass 10ICSEAnswered 27 Mar 2026
Answer
- Mendel chose pea plants for studying inheritance because of the following reasons:
- They had a number of clear cut differences which were easy to
- They were self pollinating
- Many generations of pea plants can be produced in a comparatively short time span
- Their study is much simpler than that of
- Mendel's second law of inheritance states that in the inheritance of more than one pair of traits in a cross simultaneously, the factors responsible for each pair of traits are distributed independently to the
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