I have heard that Mendel didn't fudge the answer; he fudged the question by choosing the only trait that was strictly dominant/recessive to study. I'm certain he noticed other pea traits, he just didn't write a report on them. On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 6:04 PM Tomáš Zeman via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > "I think historians have concluded that Mendel himself airbrushed the data > just a bit." > > > > Hm, maybe heredity of two colors and two shapes at pea's seeds is less > complicated than heredity of colors in Moraea. There are also gene > interactions, epistasis (dominant and recessive), inhibition, > complementary > factors of heredity, "compensation" (I don't know proper English term, but > this interaction is typical for plants - dominant aleles of two genes act > against each other, so phenotype of heterozygots is same as phenotype of > double recessive homozygots, A-B- looks like aabb etc.). > > > > > But these crosses are very nice, indeed. > > > > > Tom in Czechia, birthplace of Johann Gregor Mendel :-) > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>