Assuming the tall/short gene in a pea plant follows classic patterns of Mendelian inheritance, the answers would be Tt or TT.
For a pea plant to be short, it needs to inherit two recessive alleles (or alternate forms of a gene). Recessive simply means it won't be expressed if paired with a dominant allele, expressed by a capital letter.
This means, for a pea plant to be tall, it can have inherited two dominant alleles, because tall (T) is dominant over short (t). Because it is also dominant, it can be paired with a recessive allele and will still be expressed. (Tt).
A watershed describes an area of land that contains a common set of streams and rivers that all drain into a single larger body of water, so stagnant water in a swamp
A phosphate backbone is the portion of the DNA double helix that provides structural support to the molecule. DNA consists of two strands that wind around each other like a twisted ladder. Each strand has a backbone made of alternating sugar (deoxyribose) and phosphate groups.
