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Mendel's success was derived from a combination of factors, beginning with his selection of the p -pod plant, because it had numerous different traits such as stem length, which could be long or short, seed shape, which could be round or wrinkled, or seed color, which could be yellow or green, and all of these traits segregated independently and showed a complete dominant or complete recessive pattern of inheritance, which made it might be.
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Easier to interpret the results from the phenotype of the plant.
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He also planned his experiments very carefully, maybe the most important example of this, was his recognition of true breeding plants.
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So basically he would take, for example, short plants and continue breeding them and and propagate these true breeding lines such that the offspring were exclusively short plants.
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And then he would have different collections of seeds and crops...