Second Concept in Mendel's Model

- for each character, an organism inherits two alleles, one from each parent​ - Mendel made this deduction without knowing about chromosomes (TBH NOT RLLY IMPORTANT BUT I ADDED ANYWAY ~~] - The two alleles at a particular locus may be identical, as in the true-breeding plants of Mendel’s P generation - Or the two alleles at a locus may differ, as in the F1 hybrids