Mendel crossed a true breeding pea plant with green pods and a true breeding pea plant with yello pods all offspring had green pods which color is recessiv

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Mendel crossed a true breeding pea plant with green pods and a true breeding pea plant with yello pods all offspring had green pods which color is recessive 

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Mendel did thousands of cross-breeding experiments.His key finding was that there were 3 times as many dominant as recessive traits in F2 pea plants (3:1).Mendel crossed pure lines of pea plants.However, recessive traits reappeared in second generation pea plants.

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