Mendel’s experiments demonstrated the law of dominance: traits are inherited as dominant and recessive alleles, and the dominant
allele for a trait can mask the presence of the recessive allele. Occasionally, that law is contradicted: offspring exhibit a blend of their parents’ traits. For example a red flowering plant when crossed with a white flowering plant would produce a plant with pink flowers. This type of inheritance pattern is called
If they're more diverse they adapt faster to changing conditions meaning the population is less likely to diminish in the event of a change in their ecosystem.
