Unlike animal breeders and human geneticists, plant breeders rarely use pedigree charts in their work. Which is most likely the reason that plant breeders use other methods for analyzing results instead of constructing pedigree charts?

A. Plants have many more offspring than most animals have.
B. Plants have too many important traits to show in a pedigree.
C. Plants change only through mutation, not breeding.
D. Inheritance patterns in plants are different from those in animals.

Please explain your answer!

Question

Unlike animal breeders and human geneticists, plant breeders rarely use pedigree charts in their work. Which is most likely the reason that plant breeders use other methods for analyzing results instead of constructing pedigree charts? 

A. Plants have many more offspring than most animals have. 
B. Plants have too many important traits to show in a pedigree. 
C. Plants change only through mutation, not breeding. 
D. Inheritance patterns in plants are different from those in animals. 

Please explain your answer!

bioepic · Answer

Probably A.
Animals tend to only have less offspring (in the range of 1-8 or so) so you can put them on a pedigree chart. Plants, however, have hundreds if not thousands of offspring the the pedigree chart would become too large.

bioepic · Answer

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