Multiple choice

In Pisum sativum, purple flowers are dominant to white flowers. When two white flowered plants are cross, what percentage of their offspring will be white flowered?

  1. 25%

  2. 50%

  3. 75%

  4. 100%

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D Correct answer
Explanation

Since white flowers are the recessive traits in Pisum sativum, the genotype of the parents would be pp x pp, where P= gene for a purple flower and p= gene for a white flower. Because it is a recessive trait, both white flowered parents must be homozygous recessive. Therefore, all of their offsprings will also have white flowers, because that is the only gene available.