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Gregor Mendel demonstrated characters of inheritance acquired by offspring from parents. He selected pea plants for this experiment for the following reasons:
• Peas exhibit several visible contrasting features such as dwarf/tall plants, wrinkled/round seeds, yellow/green pod, white/purple flowers and so on.
• As they possess bisexual flowers, they can easily undergo self-pollination. This is why pea plants are able to produce offspring with the same traits over generations
• Cross pollination can easily be achieved through emasculation wherein the stamen of the flower is plucked without any disturbance to the pistil
• These plants have a short life span wherein they produce plenty of seeds in one generation alone