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Why did Mendel choose garden pea for his experiments ? Write two reasons.

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1.Normally pea plant was self-fertilizing, because petals enclose the reproductive organs till fertilization
2. The pea plant was easy to cultivate and from one generation to next took only a single growing season
3. Peas had many sharply defined inherited characters. Thus they possess many desirable features.

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