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Give the pair of contrasting traits of the following characters in pea plant and mention which is dominant and recessive.
(i) yellow seed (ii) round seed (iii) green seed (iv) wrinkled seed.

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(i) yellow - dominant
green - recessive

(ii) round - dominant
wrinkled - recessive

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