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In a Mendelian dihybrid cross, a true-breeding pea plant with...
In a Mendelian dihybrid cross, a true-breeding pea plant with inflated green pods is crossed with a true-breeding plant having constricted yellow pods. The offspring are then self-pollinated. Assuming the genes for these two characters assort independently, what proportion of the progeny will possess inflated yellow pods?
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- B
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Correct answer
B.
Step-by-step solution
In pea plants, inflated pod shape is dominant over constricted pod shape, and green pod color is dominant over yellow pod color.
Let the alleles for pod shape be (inflated) (constricted), and for pod color be (green) (yellow).
The true-breeding parents are (inflated green) (constricted yellow).
The offspring will all be heterozygous , exhibiting the inflated green phenotype.
When the generation is self-pollinated (), the progeny will show a standard dihybrid phenotypic ratio of .
The phenotypes corresponding to this ratio are:
Inflated green pods
Inflated yellow pods
Constricted green pods
Constricted yellow pods
Therefore, the proportion of progeny with inflated yellow pods is .
Answer:
Let the alleles for pod shape be (inflated) (constricted), and for pod color be (green) (yellow).
The true-breeding parents are (inflated green) (constricted yellow).
The offspring will all be heterozygous , exhibiting the inflated green phenotype.
When the generation is self-pollinated (), the progeny will show a standard dihybrid phenotypic ratio of .
The phenotypes corresponding to this ratio are:
Inflated green pods
Inflated yellow pods
Constricted green pods
Constricted yellow pods
Therefore, the proportion of progeny with inflated yellow pods is .
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