GENETICS AND EVOLUTION
INHERITANCE AND VARIATION
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beans
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corn
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rice
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peas
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mendel carried out his key experiments using the garden pea, Pisum sativum, as a model system. Pea plants make a convenient system for studies of inheritance, and they are still studied by some geneticists today.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gregor Mendel experimented with pea plants to learn how characteristics are passed from parents to offspring. Mendel’s discoveries formed the basis of genetics, the science of heredity.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.