Explain mendel's experiment to describe inheritance of one gene with reference to height of pea plants.

Explanation

• Mendel crossed a true breeding tall pea plant with a true breeding dwarf plant.
• All the offspring (hybrid) in the `F_1` generation were tall indicating that tallness is dominant over dwarf character.
• Then he allowed the `F_1` tall plants to undergo self pollination. In the `F_2` generation, both tall and dwarf plants were produced in the ratio 3:1.
• The reappearance of dwarf character in the `F_2` generation indicates that alleles for tallness and dwarf character have segregated during gamete formation.