Keeping in view Mendel's law of Segregation, if tall plants were crossed with short heighted plants, then which of the following best describes the F1 Progeny?
Correct answer: B. Heterozygous and tall heighted
- A. Homozygous and tall heighted
- B. Heterozygous and tall heighted
- C. Homozygous and short heighted
- D. Heterozygous and short heighted
Explanation
Mendel's law of segregation states that alleles separate during gamete formation, and each gamete carries only one allele for each trait. In this case, when a homozygous tall plant (TT) is crossed with a homozygous short plant (tt), all F1 offspring are heterozygous (Tt). Since the tall allele (T) is dominant over the short allele (t), all F1 plants appear tall. Option B is correct because the F1 generation is heterozygous (Tt) and exhibits the tall phenotype. Options A and C are incorrect because they describe homozygosity, which is not the case for the F1 generation. Option D is incorrect because it describes a heterozygous short phenotype, which is impossible due to the dominance of the tall allele.
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