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Which Represents the Cross Between Parent Plants If One Is Heterozygous and Has Yellow-colored Pods and the Other Is Homozygous and Has

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Which represents the cross between parent plants if one is heterozygous and has yellow-colored pods and the other is homozygous and has green-colored posts? Yy'yy YY'yy Yy'Yy yy'yy

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Answer

The correct representation of the cross is .

Explanation

A heterozygous parent has one dominant allele and one recessive allele for a given trait, represented as . A homozygous parent has two identical alleles; in this case, for green-colored pods, which is recessive, represented as . When these two plants are crossed, the possible combinations of alleles in the offspring are derived from pairing one allele from each parent. The first parent with alleles and , and the second parent with alleles and , gives the following possible combinations: (heterozygous, yellow pods) and (homozygous, green pods).