Question

How do mendel's experiments show that traits may be dominant and recessive

Answer 1

his experiment show that the traits may be dominant and recessive as one trait can dominate other trait both in homozygous and heterozygous.dominating traits is dominant traits and trait being dominated is recessive trait.as which charachteristic can be seen.

Answer 2

mendel took pea plants with cobtrasting character tall plant and dwarf plant on cross pollination he got all tall plants in f1 generation then by self pollination of f1 tall plants he produce second generation consisting of tall and short plants in ratio of 3 :1 . then he conclude that the T (Tall) dominant while 't' the trait for shortness is recessive