Mendel kept detailed records of the genetic traits of parent plants and their offspring plants. Among observations, he found that some traits would be expressed, whenever one particular allele was present, and called this allele
a. homozygous.
b. dominant.
c. recessive.
d. homologous.
e. heterozygous.
Answer: b. dominant.
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