Question

Fill in the following blanks with suitable words :

(b) In pea plants, the gene for dwarfism is ........ whereas that for tallness is ..............

Answer 1

In pea plants, the gene for dwarfism is recessive, whereas that for tallness is dominant.

Dominant traits show its expression even in the presence of recessive one i.e., heterozygous condition, but recessive traits can express itself only in the absence of dominant characters i.e., in homozygous condition.