As you know from Chapter 9, "Mendelian heredity" applies to situations in which a single gene controls a particular trait, and there are two forms of the gene (alleles), a dominant allele and a recessive allele. . Once in a while, students get the incorrect impression that the the dominant allele is somehow "stronger" than the recessive allele, but that's very misleading. Explain the actual difference between dominant and recessive alleles. incorporate relevant information about the gene product of each allele.