Mendel used "pure breeding" strains of peas. Which would have been easier to create, pure breeding peas with the trait caused by a dominant allele or a recessive allele?
Comments: Remember, in the process of creating a pure breeding strain, you would mate
peas with identical phenotypes. The issue here hinges on which phenotype is more likely to
have a mixed genotype, one caused by dominant or recessive alleles.
A. dominant allele
B. recessive allele
C. Both strains would be equally easy to
create.
B
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