What advantages did Mendel enjoy owing to pea-flowers being bisexual and self pollinating?
WBBSE
Class X
Life Science
02 (c) Sexual Reproduction In Flowering Plants
02 Mark
2024
Mendel enjoyed two advantages:
- Bisexual flowers contain both male and female reproductive organs, allowing controlled cross-pollination and self-pollination.
- Self-pollination permitted Mendel to maintain true-breeding lines, ensuring pure traits for his experiments, which helped in accurately studying inheritance patterns.
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