Question

In one of his experiments with pea plants mendel observed that when a pure tall pea plant is crossed with a pure dwarf pea plant, in the first generation, 1 f only tall plants appear. (a) what happens to the traits of the dwarf plants in this case? (b) when the 1 f generation plants were self-fertilised, he observed that in the plants of second generation, 2 f both tall plants and dwarf plants were present. why it happened? explain briefly.

Answer 1

in mendel 's 1st experiment he gave his laws of dominance in which in F1 generation only dominant characters are seen while recessive characters are hidden .
in F2 generation Mendel found a simple ratio of 3:1 because the plants that are crossed contained both recessive and dominant characters.

Answer 2

In mendel 's 1st experiment he gave his laws of dominance in which in F1 generation only dominant characters are seen while recessive characters are hidden