Question : How do Mendel's experiments show that a] traits may be dominant or recessive? b] inheritance of two traits is independent of each other?

Question : How do Mendel's experiments show that a] traits may be dom

1.	Question : How do Mendel's experiments show that a] traits may be dominant or recessive? b] inheritance of two traits is independent of each other?
Answer» Solution :a) When Mendel crossed pure breeding tall pea plants with pure breeding dwarf pea plants, only tall pea plants were obtained in `F_1` generation. The short trait disappeared in the `F_1` generation. This shows that tall trait is dominant while the short trait is recessive. b] In Dihybrid CROSS, where two pairs of characters with two contrasting FORMS each were considered (round and green with wrinkled, YELLOW), the traits were expressed INDEPENDENT of each other resulting in offsprings with new combination of traits (wrinkled yellow, round yellow, wrinkled green) in F2 generation.