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Mendel introduced the terms
'dominant' and 'recessive' with
regard to these aspects.
Dominant is than that
characteristic which will occur
again "unmodified" in the (first)
hybrid generation, while the other
characteristic which seems to have
had no influence in the appearance
of that (first) hybrid generation is
called recessive.
In this case than the dominant
aspect is: 'Yellow' and the
recessive one: 'green'.
         
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