NEETZoologyPrinciples of Inheritance and Variation
Select the incorrect statement for the given figure.
Options
- AMendel’s Law of Independent Assortment is based on the observation of dihybrid crosses (crosses between plants
- BThese results were not identical to those that he got when he made separate monohybrid crosses between yellow
- CThe yellow and green colour segregated in a 3:1 ratio.
- DRound and wrinkled seed shape also segregated in a 3:1 ratio.
Correct answer
B. These results were not identical to those that he got when he made separate monohybrid crosses between yellow
Step-by-step solution
When Mendel self hybridised the F 1 plants he found that 3/4 th of F 2 plants had yellow seeds and 1/4 th had green. The yellow and green colour segregated in a 3:1 ratio. Round and wrinkled seed shape also segregated in a 3:1 ratio; just like in a monohybrid cross. Based upon such observations on dihybrid crosses (crosses between plants differing in two traits) Mendel proposed a second set of generalisations that we call Mendel’s Law of Independent Assortment. The law states that ‘when two pairs of traits are comb