NEET Biology question

BiologyPrinciples of Inheritance and VariationNEET

Pure tall plants are crossed with pure dwarf plants. In the -generation, all plants were tall. These tall plants of -generation were selfed and the ratio of tall to dwarf plants obtained was . This is called

Answer: (A)

Solution

The complete masking of the dwarf trait in the heterozygous (all tall) and the reappearance of the ratio in is the defining behaviour of a dominant-recessive relationship, i.e. dominance (here, tallness

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