Question

You are running a nursery for garden peas at Baton Rouge, and you have two pure-bred garden pea strains: Yellow Wrinkled [YYrr] and Green Round [yyRR]. You know that Yellow is dominant to Green, and also that Round is dominant to Wrinkled. One customer dropped by and asked about one particular pure-bred strain, Yellow Round [YYRR]. You promised to that customer that you could generate that strain next year through the following breeding experiments.

I. Crossing pure-bred Yellow Wrinkled with Green Round
II. Self-crossing F1 progeny
III. Screening pure-bred Yellow Round among the F2 progeny

What is the genotype for F1 progeny?

A. YYrr
B. rrYY
C. YyRr
D. yyrr
E. none of the above

Answer 1

C. YyRr

Step-by-step explanation:

The cross was done between pure-bred Yellow Wrinkled and Green Round plants. The genotype of the pure breeding yellow wrinkled parent plant: YYrr. The genotype of the pure breeding green round parent plant: yyRR.

A cross between YYrr and yyRR would obtain the progeny in the following ratios:

YYrr x yyRR= All YyRr (yellow and round)