Why were garden peas a good organism for Gregor Mendel to use in his study of heredity?

Garden peas were inexpensive.





Garden peas reproduce quickly.





Garden peas have only 14 chromosomes.





Garden peas are pollinated by insects.

Why were garden peas a good organism for Gregor Mendel to use in his study of heredity?
I think it was easy to grow, easy to reproduce, and and easy to pollinate. I would say to answer your question with the list of answers it is #2 easy to reproduce. You need an easy test subject to rule out as many variables as possible.
Reply:gardening is also fun
Reply:Gregor Mendel selected garden pea ( pisum sativum ) for his hybridization experiments because of the following reasons-


1) Plants are annual %26amp; easy to cultivate.


2) Pea has many distinct , well defined %26amp; easily observable morphological characteristics ( traits).


3) Flowers are bisexual %26amp; naturally self fertilizing , but they can be easily cross fertilized also .


4) The offsprings of cross fertilization are fertile .


5) Flowers are suffiently large for easy emasculation ( removal of stamens) %26amp; artificial cross pollination.


But it has been proved tht Mendel got success more bcoz of the luck factor rather than his efforts.............


i know it might be funny now ,since i have already provided u with a proper answer , to tell u to go , open ur textbook %26amp; be a bit friendly with it.......... these facts r there in ur textbook.............
Reply:Some food is just that good,


for me........ it is potatoes...for him PEAS.





To each their own.
Reply:This is the third or fourth question you've asked that is obviously homework or a take-home exam.





All of this information is either in your textbook or can be easily learned by reading your textbook. I suggest you do that. You are eventually going to have to learn to do this sort of research and comprehension on your own - why not start now?
Reply:They were easy to grow, readily reproduce, and had a good set of readily observable variant traits. Mendel lucked out in that the traits assorted independently of each other!