Question

A pea plant with purple flowers was crossed with a pea plant with white

flowers producing 50 plants with only purple flowers. On selfing, these
plants produced 483 plants with purple flowers and 161 with white
flowers.
(a). What will be the set of genes present in the F1 generation?
(b). Give reason why only purple flowered plants are observed in F1
progeny.
(c). Give the phenotype of F2 generation, When F1 were self-pollinated.
What can you conclude about the nature of the two traits?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

b. purple flowered plant are observed in the first progeny because the purple flower gene is dominant to the white flower gene