Gregor Mendel is famous for his experiments with peas. Which of the following were his observations regarding pea seeds of next generations if seed of the parent plants were green and yellow?

Option 2 : More Plants were having yellow seeds q

Concept:

Law of inheritance:

• Gregor Mendel conducted hybridisation experiments on garden peas for seven years and proposed the laws of inheritance in living organisms.
•  He selected 14 true-breeding pea plant varieties, as pairs which were similar except for one character with contrasting traits.
• Based on these observations, Mendel proposed that something was being stably passed down, unchanged, from parent to offspring through the gametes, over successive generations. 

Explanation:

Experiments of the law of inheritance with yellow and green seeds:

• Mendel investigated characters in the garden pea plant that were manifested as two opposing traits, e.g., tall or dwarf Plants, and yellow or green seeds.
• In the law of inheritance, Mendel denotes yellow colour seed is a dominant trait and the green colour seed is a recessive trait.
• He collected the seeds produced as a result of this cross and grew them to generate plants of the first hybrid generation or the F1.
• He notices all the F1 generation plant seeds are yellow like one of its parents.
• Mendel then self-pollinated the yellow F1 plant's seeds and to his surprise found that in the Filial2 generation some of the offspring were ‘green’.
• At the F2 stage, both the traits were expressed in the proportion of 3:1.
• For the yellow dominant trait, he uses YY and for the recessive green trait, he uses yy.

Thus, phenotypically more Plants were having yellow seeds.