Question

A mendelian experiment consisted of breeding tall pea plants bearing violet flowers. The progeny all bore violet flowers, but almost half of them were short. write the genetic makeup (genotype) of the parent

Answer 1

Since all the plants in F1 gen has Violet flowers, the parent has violet as Dominant gene represented as VV and since half are short, it has one tall dominant gene and one recessive that is Tt.

So the genotype of parent will be

Tt VV

Answer 2

TtVV× ttVV

TtVV

TtVV

ttVV

ttVV