What did Mendel choose to study the inherited traits of pea plants?

a. Pea plants were known to have relatively few, easily manipulated chromosomes compared to other available organisms.
b. Pea plants were the only organisms he could reasonably breed in his facilities at the monastery where he lived and worked.
c. Peas were a profitable agricultural product for the monastery, allowing his research to be self-funded indefinitely.
d. The pea plants had discontinuously variable traits, which allowed underlying probabilities of inheritance to be inferred.


d. The pea plants had discontinuously variable traits, which allowed underlying probabilities of inheritance to be inferred.

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