Mendel is known as the ‘Father of Genetics’ because of his ground breaking work on inheritance in pea plants 150 years ago. At the age of 21 Mendel while working in a monastery in Brunn (now in the Czech Republic) began a series of experiments in their botanical garden. He found out how traits are passed from one generation to another, i.e. inheritance. He studied this in peas (Pisum sativum), because they are easy to grow and can be shown each year.
(a) During the experiments, Mendel called genes by the term.

(b) Under which topic, Mendel’s work was published in ‘Natural History Society of Brunn’?

(c) Why Mendel was lucky to work on pea plants for his experiment?

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(c) What are the traits chosen by Mendel for his experiments on pea plant?