LIFE SCIENCE

OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE

GENETICS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Gregor Mendel used pea plants to study ____
A
flowering
B
gamete formation
C
the inheritance of traits
D
cloning
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -His first step was to establish pea plant populations with two different features, such as tall vs. short height, breeding them until they always produced offspring identical to the parent. After this, he then bred them with each other to observe how the offspring inherited the traits.

Detailed explanation-2: -The pea plants used in Mendel’s genetic inheritance studies were diploid, with 14 chromosomes in somatic cells.

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