Mendel used over 28,000 pea plants in his experiment. How does this large
sample size make his results more reliable?
A. He used more plants so the experiment wouldn't take as long.
B. Most of the plants were unable to reproduce, so he needed many
of them.
C. It made his actual results approach the results predicted by
probability.
D. He was not sure which of the plants were female and which were
male.
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Mendel used pea plant because of its different characteristics. He used 28,000 pea plants in his experiment which made his actual results approach the results predicted by probability.

Why Mendel opted only pea plant?

Mendel is the father of genetics who worked on pea plant for his experiment.

Mendel opted for pea plant because of following characteristics of pea plant:

Easy to grow.
Hermaphrodite species.
Easy to get pure breed plant by self fertilization.
Generation time is less.
Disease resistant.

Mendel used over 28,000 pea plants in his experiment so that he can get actual results approach the results predicted by probability.

Thus, the correct option is C.

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