What advantages were provided by Mendel's choice of the garden pe...

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What advantages were provided by Mendel's choice of the garden pea in his experiments?

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Welcome back. Let's look at our next question. It says the following are some of the visible characteristics of the pea plant. Mendel used in his experiment except so let's keep in mind we're looking for the exception. So we're looking for a trait that Mendel did not look at in his experiments. So mental observes seven different characteristics and his experiments on Pea plants. So I'm just going to put up a chart of those things. And I put I put as the top four here, the ones you see maybe most commonly in genetics problems. He looked at the seed shape or P shape whether it was round or wrinkled, the seed color whether it's green or yellow, the flower color whether it's purple or white, stem height, tall or dwarf plants and then maybe less well known pod color. So the Peapod itself, whether it was green or yellow, the pad's shape whether it was inflated, so sort of looked smooth or constricted where you can see the lumps for the little peas and finally flower position, Axial versus terminal axl being, flowers growing in the middle of the stem, terminal being at its extremity. So let's look through our answer choices here. Choice A says stem height Again, we're looking for the characteristic that Mendel did not observe stem height. We see is one of them here. So that's not our answer choice choice B. Is seed shape. And he did indeed investigate that. So that is also not our answer choice C. Flower color. That's one of those on our list. So we're left with choice D. C. Or stem, sorry, stem diameter. And we see that indeed stem diameter is not in our list of characteristics that Mendel observed. So are correct. Answer is choice D stem diameter. See you in the next video.

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What advantages were provided by Mendel's choice of the garden pea in his experiments?