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State and explain the Mendel's law of dominance?

State and explain the Mendel's law of dominance?

Mendel's law of dominance states that, "In a crossing between pure organism for constrasting characteristics of a pair, only one characteristics of a pair appears in the first filial generation.
Let us consider a pure tall pea plants (TT) and a pure dwarf pea plant (tt). When a pure tall pea plant is cross pollinated with the pure dwarf one, all the off springs will be tall in first filial generation. Here, tallness appears by suppressing the dwarfness. In this cross, tall is the dominant characteristics as it appears in F1 generation and dwarf is the recessive characteristics as it remains hidden.

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