Mendel found that all the offsprings were again tall. When the trait does not dominate, it is referred as recessive . It is recessive Each plant carries two copies of a hereditary component. They are referred to as alleles . One allele comes from one parent, the other from the other parent.
Alleles pass into different reproductive cells, called gametes .
When an allele is dominant, a capital letter is given to it. In this case, a T is for tall.