Pea plants were particularly well suited for use in mendel's breeding experiments for all of the following reasons except that
a) peas show easily observed variations in a number of characters, such as pea shape and flower color.
b) it is possible to completely control matings between different pea plants.
c) it is possible to obtain large numbers of progeny from any given cross.
d) peas have an unusually long generation time.
e) many of the observable characters that vary in pea plants are controlled by single genes.

the answer is E.

Many observable characters that vary in pea plants, in fact are controlled by multiple genes instead of single genes...

interphase

the period of cell growth when the cell synthesizes new molecules and organelles. the cell is not dividing and it constitutes the majority of the time spent in the cell cycle

prophase

changes occur in the nucleus and cytoplasm. the chromatin condenses to form structures (sister chromatids) visible with a light microscope and the mitotic spindle begins to form, but the nucleus is still in tact

prometaphase

the nuclear envelope fragments and the spindle microtubules attach to the kinetochores of the sister chromatids

metaphase

all the cell's duplicated chromosomes are lined up at an imaginary plane equidistant between the poles of the mitotic spindle

anaphase

begins when sister chromatids separate from each other and ending when a complete set of daughter chromosomes arrives at each of the two poles of the cell

telophase

the daughter nuclei form at the two poles of a cell

cytokinesis

the division of a cytoplasm to form two separate daughter cells. usually occurs during telophase during mitosis. this and mitosis make up to mitotic (m) phase of the cell cycle