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Heterozygous tall plant is selfed. It produces both tall and dwarf plants. This confirms Mendel's
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Principles of Inheritance and Variation
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Solution:
Heterozygous tall plant possesses two different types of alleles and during gamete formation by meiosis, the alleles of a pair segregate from each other and only one type of allele is passed to each gamete. This confirms Mendel's law of segregation.