Answer to Question #176953 in Genetics for marwah abbas

Question

Given a cross between 2 plants. The male is pure with long stem and the female is pure with short stem. All F1 generation has long stems. a) Determine the dominant and the recessive alleles. b) Do the necessary factorial analysis to find the genotypic and phenotypic percentages of F1 and F2 generations

Answer 1

a) Dominant Allele =Long Stem

Recessive Allele=Short Stem

b) Because of dominance, the phenotype, or visible trait, ratios were 75 percent long and 25 percent short , which can also be written as 3:1.