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What are Mendel's laws of inhertitance? What are the reasons to choose pea plant for his experiment?

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1. Law of Dominance: Among a pair of colosely related alleles or factors, only one expresses itself. In the first generation as one of the allele is dominant over the other. This is called as Mendel's Law of dominance.
2. Law of seggregation: the law of seggregation states that every individual possesseds a pair of alleles for any particular trait that each parent posses a randomly selected copy only one of these to its off -spring.
3. Law of independent assortment: In the inheritance of more than one pair of characters(traits), the factors for each pair of characters sassort independently of the other pairs. this is known as Law of independent assortment
Mendel has chosen garden pea as material for his experimant because: i. It has well developed characters.
ii. it is a bisexual flower
iii. Predominently self pollinating.
iv. Suitable for cross pollination
v. It is an annual plant
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