Mendel's success in formulating his fundamental principles of inheritance can be attributed to which of the following?

A. Mendel focused on the overall appearance of the plant rather than on individual traits.
B. Mendel focused on individual traits of the plant rather than on the overall appearance.
C. Mendel chose to study complex traits that result from interactions between multiple genes.
D. Mendel used an organism that grew slowly, therefore having long generation times.
E. Mendel used fruit flies to study inheritance.


B

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