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Detailed explanation-1: -Mendel called the visible form the dominant trait and the hidden form the recessive trait. In the second generation, after plants were allowed to self-fertilize (pollinate themselves), the hidden form of the trait reappeared in a minority of the plants.

Detailed explanation-2: -Working with garden pea plants, Mendel found that crosses between parents that differed for one trait produced F1 offspring that all expressed one parent’s traits. The traits that were visible in the F1 generation are referred to as dominant, and traits that disappear in the F1 generation are described as recessive.

Detailed explanation-3: -During this time, Mendel observed seven different characteristics in the pea plants, and each of these characteristics had two forms (Figure 3). The characteristics included height (tall or short), pod shape (inflated or constricted), seed shape (smooth or winkled), pea color (green or yellow), and so on.

Detailed explanation-4: -His first step was to establish pea plant populations with two different features, such as tall vs. short height, breeding them until they always produced offspring identical to the parent. After this, he then bred them with each other to observe how the offspring inherited the traits.

Detailed explanation-5: -One copy is inherited from their mother (via the egg) and the other from their father (via the sperm). A sperm and an egg each contain one set of 23 chromosomes. When the sperm fertilises the egg, two copies of each chromosome are present (and therefore two copies of each gene), and so an embryo forms.