What vegetable did mendel use in his experiments? what is the difference in a dominant and a recessive gene? what is a gene? what is an allele? what are genotypes? what are phenotypes?

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19 June, 11:26

What vegetable did mendel use in his experiments? what is the difference in a dominant and a recessive gene? what is a gene? what is an allele? what are genotypes? what are phenotypes?

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Ignacio Hall · Answer 1

Mendel used peas.

A dominant gene is a gene that will be the powerful one you could say. And a recessive gene is the weaker one. For example if D is blue (and dominant) and d was yellow (recessive) and you would get something like Dd then that off spring will blue not yellow, if that makes sense.

Genotypes are the letters I used like Dd, dd, DD.

And phenotypes are what the pair of letters respond to: Dd=blue, dd=yellow, DD = blue. Think of phenotypes as the how they will look physically. Hope this makes sense.