Question
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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Roslyn
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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).