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A scientist has a pea plant with yellow seeds. It has one allele for yellow seeds (Y) and one for green seeds (y).

Which describes the genotype of the pea plant?

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heterozygous

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Answer:heterozygous

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The genotype of an organism is its genetic makeup which is characterized by the presence of alleles of a gene.

The genotype can be broadly of two types :

1. Heterozygous - when an individual has 2 different variants of a gene known as alleles, then the person is said to be heterozygous for that gene.

2. Homozygous - if both the alleles of a gene are the same, then the person is said to be homozygous.

Since in the given situation you have two different alleles - yellow and green represented by Y and y, the individual is heterozygous.

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