GREGOR MENDEL'S

LAW OF DOMINANCE
•One of Gregor Mendel's main ideas
is called the Law of Dominance
(also sometimes called the
Principle of Dominance).

•The Law of Dominance says that

when an organism is heterozygous
for a trait, only the dominant
allele will produce a phenotype.
• The first cherry is homozygous for
the red allele and the second cherry
is homozygous for the yellow allele.
The third cherry is heterozygous,
meaning it has one red allele and
one yellow allele. Since this cherry
is red, the law of dominance would
say that the red allele (A) is
dominant because only this allele
produced a phenotype in a
•The Law of Dominance only
applies to simple traits that
follow Mendelian Genetics.
However, most traits are more
complex and have different
inheritance patterns, like
codominance. This law would not
apply to those traits.