NEET BIOLOGY

GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

GENETIC BASIS OF INHERITANCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Mendel’s experiment on Pea plant focused on which type of characteristics? (choose 3)
A
flower colour
B
height of plant
C
length of pea pod
D
Pea pod’s colour
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Mendel’s data revealed patterns of inheritance. He made three key choices about his experiments that played an important role in the develop-ment of his laws of inheritance: control over breeding, use of purebred plants, and observation of “either-or” traits that appeared in only two alternate forms.

Detailed explanation-3: -Seven traits were used by Mendel, including smooth or wrinkled ripe seeds, yellow or green seed albumen, purple or white flower, tall or dwarf stem length, and others.

Detailed explanation-4: -Gregor Mendel choose pea plants to perform his experiments because they grow quickly, are easy to breed, and have a variety of traits.

Detailed explanation-5: -There were 7 characters of the pea plant which were selected by Mendel for the experiments. The characters which were chosen by Mendel for his study were stem height, flower colour, flower position, pod shape, pod colour, seed shape, seed colour. All these characters belong to different chromosomes in the pea plant.

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