Question

Pea plants are more suitable than mice for Mendel's experiments because pea plants can be self-fertilised, are easy to grow in large numbers and have a short life cycle.

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is A

True

Pea plant possesses hermaphrodite flowers and is suitable for self-fertilisation and can easily be cross-pollinated. They also have a very short life cycle and produce a large number of offspring. He could also identify many contrasting traits in the plant which helped him to prove his results efficiently across generations. His experiments had a large sampling size, which gave greater credibility to the data that he collected.