What was the outcome of the pea experiment?

• When the offspring of the F1 generation is self-pollinated, one-fourth of the offspring were found to be short in the F2 generation. Mendel concluded that each parent contributes one trait to the
• In the F1 generation, each plant had an allele of the tall plant – T, and an allele of the dwarf plant – t. Therefore, all plants will have one T and one
• The presence of T in the genes of the offspring plant will lead the plant to be tall as it is a dominant If the dominant trait is present in the plant, it will overpower the inherited recessive trait. The ‘short length’ allele is a recessive trait, represented by t.
• According to this theory, all the plants in the F1 generation will have one tall allele and one short
• The presence of even one tall allele will lead the plant to be tall in height. The plants in the P generation have different genotypes. The genotype of the tall parent plant is ‘TT’ while the dwarf pea plant is ‘tt’.
• According to Mendel, each parent will contribute one trait to the offspring. All the plants in the F1 generation had a genotype consisting of one T of the tall parent and one t of the dwarf parent. The resulting genotype will be Tt for all
• The presence of the dominant T will make all the plants in the F1 generation tall. The dwarf allele t is present in the genotype of each of the plant in the F1

Pea plant experiment

The P2 generation is self-pollinated. Each parent will have the genotype Tt and one of each will be given to the offspring. The chances of an offspring getting both t are one- fourth