Mendel’s Work (About Mendel, Reasons for success, Reasons for selecting pea plant)

Question

How many true breeding pea plant varieties did Mendel select as pairs, which were similar except in one character with contrasting traits ?

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Solution

Mendel selected 7 characters. For each character he selected 2 contrasting varieties. So total true breeding varieties selected by him were 14.
The characters selected include plant height, flower colour, flower position, pod colour, pod shape, seed shape and seed colour.

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