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How do Mendel’s experiments show that traits may be dominant or recessive ? [AICBSE 2015]

How do Mendel’s experiments show that traits may be dominant or recessive ? [AICBSE 2015]

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Pawan Prajapati
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3 years ago
Mendel took pea plants with contrasting characteristics tall plant and dwarf (or short) plant. On cross pollination, he got all tall plants in first generation (F1). But by the self¬pollination of F1 tall plants, the plants of second generation consisted of tall and short pants in the ratio of 3 : 1. On the basis of these experiments, the characteristics appeared in first generation were called dominant (i.e. tall plants) and the characteristics that did not appear were called recessive (dwarf i.e. plants).

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