Question

How to identify Recessive and Dominant Traits?​

Answer 1

In order to identify the dominant and recessive trait, we first look at the first generation.

• Dominant trait is always represented by a capital letter.
• Recessive trait is always represented by a lower-case letter.

In the first generation, the trait which shows it's visible characteristics is referred as dominant trait.

Let us understand this with the help of an example:

When the plant of green, round peas are crossed with plant of wrinkled, yellow peas, the resulting first generation would be seeds of Round and yellow peas.

This shows that

• Round and yellow are dominant traits and
• Wrinkled and green are recessive traits.

The characteristics of Recessive traits are not visible in the first generation but they are noticeable in the second generation.