If Mendel's crosses between tall, spherical-seeded plants and short, dented-seeded plants had produced many more than 1/16 short, dented-seeded plants in the F2 generation, he might have concluded that:

A. the dented seed and short traits are unlinked.

B. he would not have concluded any of the above.

C. all traits in peas assort independently of each other.

D. the spherical seed and tall traits are linked.

E. all traits in peas are linked.