You are a farmer starting an orchard and interested in breeding citrus trees. In grapefruits, big fruit (B) is dominant over small fruit (b), and silky skin (S) is dominant over rough skin (s). You cross a homozygous tree that has big fruit and silky skin, with a homozygous tree that has small fruit and rough skin. You self-cross the F1 to produce the F2.
Required:
a. What will be the phenotypic ratios in the F2?
b. If you backcross an F1 tree with the big, silky skin parent, what phenotypes and proportions would you expect in the offspring?
c. If you backcross an F1 tree with the small, rough skin parent, what phenotypes and proportions would you expect in the offspring?