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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.

Gene pair can be represented as Tt. T-Tallness-T and Dwarfness-t.(Dominant is always represented with a capital letter and recessive with a small letter).


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