Smooth seed shape is dominant to wrinkled. F2 generation is as follows: 3/4 smooth : 1/4 wrinkled. What were the phenotypes of the P1 parents? A) SS×ss B) Smooth and wrinkled C) Ss× Ss D) smooth × smooth E) Ss ×ss

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Smooth seed shape is dominant to wrinkled. F2 generation is as follows: 3/4 smooth : 1/4 wrinkled. What were the phenotypes of the P1 parents?

A) SS×ss

B) Smooth and wrinkled 

C) Ss× Ss

D) smooth × smooth

E) Ss ×ss

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Gregor Mendel experimented on garden pea.This was because peas possesses four important qualities:

  • Peas had been shown to be true-breeding
  • Peas exhibit a variety of contrasting traits.
  • Pea plants grow quickly and do not require much space
  • The shape of the pea flower protected it from foreign pollen.

Among the seven contrasting traits shape of the pea was one of them.The pea shape were two types round or wrinkled.Round seed shape is dominant over wrinkled seed shape.

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