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9 June, 01:11

In pea plants, round seeds are dominant and wrinkled seeds are recessive. A pea plant with round seeds was pollinated with a pea plant with wrinkled seeds. The offspring produced round seeds. One of the offspring was mated with a pea plant with heterozygous genes for round seeds.

What are the chances that the offspring will have wrinkled seeds?

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  1. 9 June, 01:27
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    1/4.

    Assume round gene as A and wrinkled gene as a.

    First we can learn that plant with wrinkled seeds must has gene aa because gene a is recessive.

    Because the offspring produces all round seeds, the gene of the offspring must be Aa.

    The heterogeneous plant, literally, has gene Aa too.

    So the seeds after mated should have 3 types: AA, Aa, aa and the ratio will be 1:2:1. the wrinkled seeds have gene aa, so the chance is 1 / (1+2+1) = 1/4.
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