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AAbout 3,000 plants
BAbout 300 plants
CNearly 30,000 plants
DAbout 300,000 plants
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Nearly 30,000 plants
1. In 1865 Mendel presented his results to the local Natural History Society.
2. Those results covered nearly 30,000 pea plants.
3. A sample this large is what let him treat his counts as probabilities.
4. Hundreds or a few thousand plants would have been too few to steady the ratios.
_Source: OpenStax Biology (1st ed., CC BY 4.0), Ch 12 "Mendel's Experiments and Heredity", section 12.1 Mendel's Experiments and the Laws of Probability_
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