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For coloured flowers are dominant to white, and tallness is dominant to dwarfness.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett
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
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
In certain characters, such as dwarfness of stature, hairiness, &c., the species from the most distant mountains frequently resemble each other,—a kind of analogy like that for instance of the succulency of most desert plants.
From The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 by Sir Francis Darwin
A given gamete could carry tallness or dwarfness, but not both.
From Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett
