Question

In pea plants, the dominant seed colour is ______(A)_________ and the recessive fruit colour is ________(B)________.

• A. A-yellow, B-green
• B. A-yellow, B-yellow
• C. A-green, B-green
• D. A-green, B-yellow

Answer 1

The correct option is B A-yellow, B-yellow

The colour of the seed and the fruit (pod) were two of the seven characters that Mendel selected in pea plants to perform hybridisation experiments.

Each of the characters had two traits - one was expressed phenotypically in the heterozygous condition and was referred to as the dominant trait while the other that did not express itself was said to be recessive.

For the seed colour, yellow is the dominant trait and green is recessive while for the fruit (pod) colour, green is dominant and yellow is recessive.