Principles of Inheritance and Variation

7. In peas, tallness is dominant over dwarfness, and red colour of flowers is dominant over the white colour. When a tall plant bearing red flowers was pollinated with a dwarf plant bearing white flowers, the different phenotypic groups were obtained in the progeny in numbers mentioned against them:

Tall, Red = 138 Tall, White = 132 Dwarf, Red = 136 Dwarf, White = 128 Mention the genotypes of the two parents and the four offspring types. Solution:

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9. In a monohybrid cross of plants with red and white-flowered plants, Mendel got only red-flowered plants. On self-pollinating these F1 plants got both red and white-flowered plants in 3:1 ratio. Explain the basis of using RR and rr symbols to represent the genotype of plants of the parental generation.

Solution: Mendel obtained only red-flowered plants with genotype Rr by crossing red (RR) and white (rr) flowering plants. This is the first hybrid generation's filial progeny (F1) or plants. F1...

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