A pea plant expresses the recessive trait for flower color. How are its alleles abbreviated scientifically?

Pp

PP

pP

pp

Is it pp or pP?

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9 December, 08:25

A pea plant expresses the recessive trait for flower color. How are its alleles abbreviated scientifically?

Pp

PP

pP

pp

Is it pp or pP?

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Micah Andersen · Answer 1

Pp, capital P represents a dominant gene. So, the genes with the capital p all show the dominant trait. Only when both are lowercase p's does it show the recessive trait.

Damon Paul · Answer 2

Pp

Recessive is always lower case. If something has the recessive trait, it has to have two lower case, if it had one upper case it would have a dominant allele and therefore wouldn't have the recessive trait

A pea plant expresses the recessive trait for flower color. How are its alleles abbreviated scientifically?PpPPpPppIs it pp or pP?

A pea plant expresses the recessive trait for flower color. How are its alleles abbreviated scientifically?

Pp

PP

pP

pp

Is it pp or pP?