Gujarati
4.Principles of Inheritance and Variation
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In pea plants, red flowers $(R)$ are dominant over to white flowers $(r)$ and tall plants $(T)$ are dominant over to dwarf plants $(t)$. The table below shows the gametes and the possible offsprings produced in a dihybrid cross. The numbers $1$ to $16$ represent the genotypes of each individual cross $(e.g. 3 = RrTT)$

                $RT$      $Rt$     $rT$      $rt$

$RT$             $1$        $2$       $3$       $4$

$Rt$              $5$        $6$       $7$       $8$

$rT$              $9$        $10$     $11$     $12$

$rt$               $13$       $14$     $15$    $16$

If plant $7$ is crossed with plant $12$, then what proportion of the offsprings produced will be homozygous for both the recessive characters

A

$50\%$

B

$37.5\%$

C

$25\%$

D

$12.5\%$

Solution

(c) The genotype of plant $7$ is $RrTt$ of plant $12$ is $rrTt$, when they are crossed they produce $2$ plants out of $8$ with the genotype

$rrtt, rrTT i.e., 25\%$.

 $RrTt$     $ \times$     $rrTt$

$Plant\, 7$                 $Plant  \,12$

  $RT$ $Rt$ $rT$ $rt$
$rT$ $RrTT$ $RrTt$ $rrTT$ $rrTt$
$rt$ $RrTt$ $Rrtt$ $rrTt$ $rrtt$

 

Standard 12
Biology

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