How did Mendel make crosses with his plants? A., He planted the seeds of each type together, and they grew into a single plant. B., He cut the peas in half and combined them to grow a single plant. C., He grew plants from seeds and fertilized the ovules of one plant with the pollen from another. D., He allowed the pea plants to intertwine during growth to allow fertilization.

The correct answer will be option-C.

Explanation:

Gregor Mendel is known for his experiments performed on the pea plants on the basis of which he was able to predict the principles of inheritance. He used seven different characters to understand the inheritance pattern of the traits in generations.

He performed monohybrid (single) and dihybrid (two) crosses by growing the plants from the seeds and performing cross-fertilization and self-fertilization. He performed self - fertilization by emasculation and cross-fertilization by shedding the pollen of another plant over ovules of another plant.

Thus, Option-C is the correct answer.