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  4. Reasons for Mendel’s success was. (i) His experiments had a large sampling size, thus greater credibility to the data collected. (ii) Use of statistical analysis and mathematical logic (iii) Considered many characters at a time. (iv) Results are confirmed on the successive generation of test plants.

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Q. Reasons for Mendel’s success was.
(i) His experiments had a large sampling size, thus greater credibility to the data collected.
(ii) Use of statistical analysis and mathematical logic
(iii) Considered many characters at a time.
(iv) Results are confirmed on the successive generation of test plants.

NTA AbhyasNTA Abhyas 2020Principles of Inheritance and Variation

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Mendel in his experiment studied the inheritance of a single character at a time. He investigated characters in garden pea plants that were manifested as two opposing traits, that allowed him to set up a basic framework of rules governing inheritance.