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Flowers of the garden pea are bisexual a...

Flowers of the garden pea are bisexual and self-pollinated .Therefore ,it iks difficult to perform hybridization experiment by crossing a particular pistil with the specific pollen grains.How Mendek made it possible in his monohybrid and dihybrid crosses?

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He worked on nearly 10,000 pea plants of 34 different varieties. He had chosen 7 pairs of contrasting characters. As the pea plants, are self-pollinating it is easy to raise pure breeding individuals. It is easy to cross pollinate. It has contrasting characters. So Mendel made it possible in his monohybrid and dihybrid crosses.
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