A Mendelian experiment consisted of breeding pea plants bearing violet flowers with pea plants bearing white flowers. What will be the result in $F_{1}$ progeny?

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Mendelian Experiment consisted of using pure line parents which means the violet and white flowers were pure lines. So the F1 will have all heterozygous progeny. The phenotype will be all violet since violet is the dominant character so it will be expressed in all F1 generation.

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A Mendelian experiment consisted of breeding tall pea plants bearing violet flowers with short pea plants bearing white flowers. The progeny all bore violet flowers, but almost half of them were short. This suggests that the genetic make-up of the tall parent can be depicted as

(a) TTWW

(b) TTww

(d) TtWw

Q. A Mendelian experiment consisted of breeding tall pea plants bearing violet flowers with short pea plants bearing white flowers. The progeny all bore violet flowers, but almost half of them were short. This suggests that the genetic make-up of the tall parent can be depicted as

A Mendelian experiment consisted of breeding tall pea plants bearing violet flowers with short pea plants bearing white flowers. The progeny all bore violet flowers, but almost half of them were short. This suggested that the genetic makeup (or genotype) of the tall parent can be depicted as

(a) TTWW (b) TTww (c) TtWW (d)TtWw

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A Mendelian experiment consisted of breeding pea plants bearing violet flowers with pea plants bearing white flowers. What will be the result in F1 progeny?

Mendelian Experiment consisted of using pure line parents which means the violet and white flowers were pure lines. So the F1 will have all heterozygous progeny. The phenotype will be all violet since violet is the dominant character so it will be expressed in all F1 generation.

A Mendelian experiment consisted of breeding pea plants bearing violet flowers with pea plants bearing white flowers. What will be the result in $F_{1}$ progeny?