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Mendel applied his analytic method to such things as the colour of the pea, the smooth or wrinkled character of the skin which covered it, its dwarfness or height, and so on.
From Science and Morals and Other Essays by Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
It grows 6in. to 8in. high, and notwithstanding its dwarfness, it proves a most attractive object, being not only conspicuous for so small a plant, but chastely beautiful.
From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by John Wood
If we are to get the effect of dwarfness, we must be sure that the stock is itself really dwarf.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
For coloured flowers are dominant to white, and tallness is dominant to dwarfness.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett
Such hybrid F1 plants, therefore, must produce a series of ovules consisting of those bearing tallness and those bearing dwarfness, and must produce them in equal numbers.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett
