Question

In a group of summer squash plants, some individuals have fuzzy leaves and others havesmooth leaves. In this group, the gene for the leaf texture trait has two alleles. The allele L isfor fuzzy leaves, and the allele I is for smooth leaves.A certain summer squash plant is from this group. This summer squash plant's phenotype forthe leaf texture trait is fuzzy leaves. This plant's genotype for the leaf texture gene is LL.Based on this information, complete the following statement.This summer squash plant isfor the leaf texture gene.heterozygoushomozygous

Answer 1

This summer squash plant is for the leaf texture gene is homozygous.

The given genotype for this summer squash plant is LL. The genotypes are identical so it is homozygous.