Why did gregor mendel use peas in his experiments? peas grow very slowly. pea reproduction cannot be controlled. peas normally produce very few offspring. peas have characteristics that have two forms.

The correct answer is peas have characteristics that have two forms.

Gregor Mendel used pea plant  Pisum sativum as a model plant for his experiments. There are many applications behind his choice, one of which is observable characteristics with contrasting traits.

Pea plant has many observable characteristics which exist in two forms for example:

Other benefits were like: short life cycle, it produces a good number of offspring in a cross, easy to breed or cross-pollinate, hybrids were liable, bisexual flowers which makes it easy to produce true-breeding etc.