Why Did Mendel Analyze Thousands of Plants While Conducting His

question 15

Multiple Choice

Why did Mendel analyze thousands of plants while conducting his research?

• A) to allow him to control the environment of his pea plants
• B) The likelihood of seeing a clear pattern is higher with a larger data set.
• C) Mendel knew that chromosomes undergo recombination during meiosis.
• D) to eliminate the probability of mutations affecting his data

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