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The diagram shows a cross that is similar to one of Mendel’s pea plant crosses.

What is the dominant phenotype of the offspring in the cross shown?


A.Ff
B.FF
C.blue
d.white

The diagram shows a cross that is similar to one of Mendel’s pea plant crosses. What-example-1
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Answer:

C. blue

Step-by-step explanation:

In genetics, homo-zygous individuals are those individuals that have the same allele form (i.e., the same allele) for a given gene/locus, whereas heterozygous individuals have different alleles for that gene/locus. Complete dominance is a form of dominance that occurs when the allele that is dominant for a given gene/locus completely masks the effects of the recessive allele in a heterozygous individual. In this case, individuals that are heterozygous (genotype Ff) exhibit a dominant flower-blue phenotype because the dominant 'F' allele completely masks the effect of the recessive 'f' allele; therefore producing a phenotypic ratio of 3:1 in the offspring of a mating between two heterozygous individuals for this single trait.

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