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List two visible traits of garden pea that Mendel considered in his experiments. How do Mendel's experiments show that traits may be dominant of recessive?

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The contrasting visible characters of garden pea plant that Mendel considered were-
(1) Round and wrinkled seeds
(i) White and violet flowers
In Mendel's experiment with pea plants, when he cross-bred a tall pea plant with a short pea plant, he found that the first generation `(F_(1))` was of only tall plants. In the `F_(1)` progony, no short plants were obtained. However, in the `F_(2)` generation, both tall and short plants were obtained in the ratio 3: 1 respectively. In the `F_(2)` progeny, both traits taliness and shortness were inherited where the tall character was the dominant trait and short character was the recessive trait. In `F_(1)` generation, short trait was not able to show itself in the presence of tall trait.
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