I supote to filled Mendel found in his experiments that the different traits could be: OR . Meaning that the dominant trait was the one that in the population more often, while the recessive trait in, or “receded” into, the background. We call those dominant and recessive genes “.” Depending on how those alleles pair up, you may see the dominant or the recessive trait.

- Dominant alleles are represented with a : B - Recessive alleles are represented with a : b - Two of the are considered : BB, bb - Two are considered : Bb Putting them together can make several combinations:

BB: – two dominants = Bb: – dominant covers up recessive = bb: – two recessive =

The of alleles is called the