Why is it not possible to study the pattern of inheritance of traits in human beings,
the same way as it is done in pea plant? Name the alternate method employed for
such an analysis of human traits.

we can do the same way in humans also but as our lifetime is long and one cant see 3 to4 generations.
 
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Because human beings have more than a million combination of genes whereas pea plant's gene is easily identifiable as it has very simple body features. The alternate method employed for such an analysis of human traits is Human Genome Project.
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Control crosses cannot be performed in human beings. Alternate method is pedigree analysis to study the traits in several generations of a family
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