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Q. Mendel selected pea as material for his experiments because

Principles of Inheritance and Variation

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Mendel selected Garden of pea as material for his hybridization experiments because of the following reasons:
(i) Hybridization or crossing in pea is easy.
(ii) It has bisexual flowers.
(iii) It has a number of well defined contrasting characters.
(iv) It shows predominantly self-fertilization.
(v) It has a short life span.