CELL DIVISION
MEIOSIS AND GENETIC VARIATION
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pea plants
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onions
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mice
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cats
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Detailed explanation-1: -However, Mendel didn’t discover these foundational principles of inheritance by studying human beings, but rather by studying Pisum sativum, or the common pea plant.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mendel studied the inheritance of seven different features in peas, including height, flower color, seed color, and seed shape. To do so, he first established pea lines with two different forms of a feature, such as tall vs. short height.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mendel followed the inheritance of 7 traits in pea plants, and each trait had 2 forms. He identified pure-breeding pea plants that consistently showed 1 form of a trait after generations of self-pollination. Mendel cross-bred peas with 7 pairs of pure-bred traits.
Detailed explanation-4: -In this experiment, Mendel took two pea plants of opposite traits (one short and one tall) and crossed them. He found the first generation offspring were tall and called it F1 progeny. Then he crossed F1 progeny and obtained both tall and short plants in the ratio 3:1.