Through his breeding experiments with pea plants, Mendel established ... Moreover, brown body color is the dominant phenotype, and black body color is the recessive phenotype.

He experimented on pea plants ... a given trait that parents transmit to their offspring can be either dominant (a trait certain to appear if one or both alleles are dominant) or recessive ...

An organism that is homozygous for a specific trait carries ... was homozygous and dominant for round (RR), yellow (YY) seeds with a pea plant that was homozygous and recessive for wrinkled ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea ... traits are dominant and would always be expressed in a first generation cross, while others are recessive ...

Crossing purebred tall (homozygous dominant – TT ... to our understanding of inheritance. He grew pea plants and observed that their characteristics varied. By crossing (mating) plants with ...

An organism's characteristics ... The round pea seed shape is the dominant characteristic and the wrinkled pea seed shape is the recessive characteristic.

While most of the genes behind his seven trait pairs — such as round vs wrinkled seeds and tall vs short plants — had ... explanation for the dominant and recessive inheritance Mendel observed ...