Assertion: Garden pea proved ideal experimental material for Mendel.
Reason: Mendel chose garden pea as plant material for his experiments, since it had many advantages like well defined characters,bisexual flowers, predominantely self fertilization etc.

Both Assertion (A) and reason (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

The correct answer is Option (1) -Both Assertion (A) and reason (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

Mendel chose garden pea as plant material for his experiments, since it had the following advantages : (i) Well defined characters. (ii) Bisexual flowers. (iii) Predominantly self-fertilization. (iv) Easy hybridization. Gregor Mendel was successful in explaining the laws of hybridity using pea plants that were pure. He was successful because he considered each single trait individually. He made use of algebra to prove patterns of inheritance. The parent plant had visible contrasting characters.