Question

Watermelon plants grow with their fruit resting on the ground. Over time, thebottom of each fruit develops a white or yellow spot called a ground spot. Insome types of watermelon plants, the color of the ground spot is an inheritedtrait.In a group of watermelon plants, some individuals have a yellow ground spot and others havea white ground spot. In this group, the gene for the ground spot color trait has two alleles.The allele for a yellow ground spot (G) is dominant over the allele for a white ground spot(g)A certain watermelon plant from this group has a yellow ground spot.Based on this watermelon plant's phenotype for the ground spot color trait, which of thefollowing could be its genotype for the ground spot color gene? Select all that applyGGGgggSubmit

Answer 1

To answer this question we need to remember quickly how mendelian inheritance works. When an allele is dominant over other the trait that codes will be present in the phenotype whether be homozygous (GG in this case) or heterozygous (Gg in this case), for the recessive trait be shown must be two copies of the recessive trait, that is to say, must be a homozygous recessive (gg for this case), so taking this into account we can say that the genotypes that will show a yellow ground spot are GG and Gg.