Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, performed his groundbreaking inheritance experiments on what type of plant?
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Pea plants
Mendel chose pea plants because they grow quickly and have easily identifiable traits like height and flower color. His work showed that traits are passed down in discrete units, which we now call genes.
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