Question

What are the reasons for Mendel’s success?

Answer 1

1. His experiments were carefully planned and involved a large sample.
2. He carefully recorded the number of plants of each type and expressed his results as ratios.
3. In the pea plant, contrasting characters can be easily recognized.
4. The seven different characters in the pea plant were controlled by a single factor each.
5. The factors are located on separate chromosomes, and these factors are transmitted from generation to generation.
6. He introduced the concepts of dominance and recessiveness.