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When Mendel crossed yellow-seeded and green-seeded pea plants, what happened?

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Answer:

Offspring in F1 generation had yellow-seeded pea plants.

Step-by-step explanation:

When Mendel used yellow-seeded and green-seeded pea plants as parents plants he noticed that all of the offspring of the first generation (F1) were yellow-seeded plants. In the next following generation (F2), phenotype ratio was 3:1 (yellow:green).

After this observation Mendel conclude that yellow-seeded plants are dominant over green-seeded plants. Since he used purebred plants, genotypes were:

P: AA x aa

F1: Aa Aa Aa Aa

F2: AA Aa Aa aa

AA and Aa are genotypes for the yellow seeds, while aa is genotype for green seeds.

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