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BiologyPrinciples of Inheritance and VariationNEET

In garden pea, the round shape of seeds is dominant over the wrinkled shape. A pea plant heterozygous for round seed shape is selfed, and 1600 seeds produced during the cross are subsequently germinated. How many seedlings would have the parental phenotype?

Answer: (C)

Solution

The heterozygous plant (, round-seeded) selfed gives offspring in the standard 3:1 (round:wrinkled) ratio. Since round is the parental (heterozygous plant's own) phenotype,

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