alleryMendel controlled which plants were crossed by carrying out
Anatural wind pollination
Bartificial pollination
Cvegetative propagation
Drandom open pollination
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. artificial pollination
1. Knowing the parents exactly is essential to reading an inheritance pattern.
2. Mendel conducted artificial pollination between the plants he selected.
3. That let him control which pollen reached which flower.
4. Open or wind pollination would have made the parentage unknown.
_Source: syllabus Biology Ch4 'Principles of Inheritance and Variation'_
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