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A cactus can either have long needles (L) or short needles (). A cactus

grower crosses two cacti. The cross is shown in the Punnett square below.
What is the phenotype ratio for this cross?
A. Two long, two short
B. Four long, zero short
C. One long, three short
D. Three long, one short

A cactus can either have long needles (L) or short needles (). A cactus grower crosses-example-1
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Your answer will be C.

Why? Because the question tells you that the cactus L's mean that they are long and as shown in the first box there are only 2 long ones. The (I) means that it's short and as shown on the second, third and forth box it shows that there are 3 short (I).

Hope this helps.

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Answer:

Three long, one short

Step-by-step explanation:

I used the answer above and it was wrong

A cactus can either have long needles (L) or short needles (). A cactus grower crosses-example-1
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