Mendel's Experimental approach

Mendel's Experimental approach

First, Mendel cross-pollinated two contrasting, true-breeding pea varieties e.g. Round-seeded plants and wrinkled-seeded plants (P generation or parental generation). Hybrid offspring were produced (F1 generation or first filial generation). Second, he allowed these F1 hybrids to self-pollinate and produce an F2 generation (second filial generation). He followed a single character e.g. shape or color to study dominance relation and two characters in a single cross like color and shape to study independent assortment of genes.