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How do Mendel's experiment show the traits may be dominant or recessive ?

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Mendel took pea plants having different characteristics , like a tall plant and a short plant . He produce progeny from them and calculated the percentages of tall short progeny . There was no halfway characteristics of tall short progeny . There was no halfway characteristics in first generation . All plants were tall . This meant that of of the parental traits was seen , not the other . Here , trait of tallness is dominant while shortness is the pocessive characteristic.
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