What quality of the traits that Mendel chose to study allowed him to establish the basic laws of inheritance?
A)The genes for most of the traits were linked.
B)The genes for all of the traits had more than two alleles each.
C)The alleles that he studied were either dominant or recessive.
D)The alleles that he studied would blend and show an intermediate phenotype.
E)The traits he studied were never controlled by genes on the chloroplast.

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The alleles that Mendel studied were either dominant or recessive, meaning that one allele would mask the expression of the other in the presence of both. This allowed Mendel to establish the basic laws of inheritance, such as the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment.

What Quality of the Traits That Mendel Chose to Study