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Question
Some plants occur in one of the two sizes : tall or dwarf. This characteristic is controlled by one pair of genes. Tallness is dominant to dwarfness. Choose suitable letters for this gene pair.
Solution
Let 'T' stands for tall, and 't' stand for dwarf. Hence, the gene pair will be Tt.
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