Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Heredity Help???

When a pure bred flowered pea is crossed with a pure bred white flower pea, all the daughter plants show red flowers, this is an example of:





a) a genetic mutation


b) intermediate inheritance


c) dominant - recessive inheritance


d) a chromosome





Please explain to me why - thank you

Heredity Help???
The answer is (c)





You have a pure bred red parent (RR) which is dominant and a pure bred white (rr) which is recessive. The offspring will all be of genotype Rr since they receive one gene from each parent.





The R is dominant, so all flowers will be red.
Reply:c: dominant - recessive inheritance





The red dominant pure bread flowered pea masks out the white pea.


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