4.Principles of Inheritance and Variation
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A tall true breeding garden pea plant is crossed with a dwarf true breeding garden pea plant. When the $F_1$ plants were selfed the resultinggenotypes were in the ratio of

A

$3 : 1 : :$ Tall : Dwarf

B

$3 : 1 : :$ Dwarf : Tall

C

$1 : 2 : 1 : : $ Tall homozygous : Tall heterozygous : Dwarf

D

$1 : 2 : 1 : :$ Tall heterozygous : Tall homozygous : Dwarf.

(NEET-2016)

Solution

(c) : When a tall true breeding garden pea plant is crossed with a dwarf true breeding garden pea plantand the $F_1$ plants were selfed the resulting genotypes were in the ratio of $1 : 2 : 1$

$i.e.$, Tall homozygous :Tall heterozygous : Dwarf

It can be illustrated as given below:

Standard 12
Biology

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