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Mention the advantages of selecting pea plant for experiment by Mendel.

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Mendel.s selected garden pea plant as a sample due to the following reasons: (i) Pea plants are readily available on large scale and has bisexual cleistogamous flowers. (ii) Pea are self-pollinated and can be cross-pollinated also. (iii) These are annual plants with short life cycle. So generation can be studied within a short period. (iv) Pea plants could be easily raised, maintained and handled. (v) Pea plants differ in distinct/ contrasting characteristics which provide many easily detectable contrasting characters.
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