Make a Punnet Square:White HETEROZYGOUS---WwRed HOMOZYGOUS--ww (this one is recessive because the white characteristic dominated in the heterozygous type)So:W ww Ww www Ww wwThese four are the potential types of the offspring, they will either be HETEROZYGOUS WHITE or HOMOZYGOUS RED, no homozygous white
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Mendel observed that all the offspring had purple flowers, showing that purple is dominant over white in pea plants. He discovered the principle of dominance and the concept of alleles.
The offspring of a true breeding white flowering plant will also display white flowers because it carries two copies of the white flower gene. These offspring will be homozygous for the white flower trait and will consistently produce white flowers when they reproduce.
The crossing of a red flowered plant and a white flowered plant produces all the offspring with pink flowers. This cross illustrates red and white exhibit incomplete dominance. ... With the result, the heterozygous offspring will be phenotypically and genotypically different from either of the homozygous parent.
If there is incomplete dominance, the offspring will have an intermediate of phenotype. For example, if you mate a homozygous white flowered snapdragon plant with a homozygous red flowered snapdragon plant, you will get pink flowered offspring.
A homozygous purple flower and a homozygous white flower having offspring that are purple is an example of dominance. Traits that yield to other traits is referred to as recessive. So in this case Purple was the dominant trait and White was the recessive trait.
All the offspring were purple because Mendel was dealing with simple genetic dominance. The purple true breeding parent was homozygous dominant and the true breeding white parent was homozygous recessive. When those two are crossed they create only heterozygous offspring (look up a punnett) and since this is simple dominance those heterozygous will show the phenotype of the dominant allele which is purple.
White-flowered, red-flowered, and pink-flowered.
Incomplete dominance is a genetic phenomenon where neither allele is completely dominant over the other, resulting in a phenotype that is a blending of both traits. A classic example is found in snapdragon flowers, where crossing a red-flowered plant (RR) with a white-flowered plant (WW) produces pink-flowered offspring (RW). This pink color demonstrates the intermediate phenotype characteristic of incomplete dominance.
Make a Punnet Square:White HETEROZYGOUS---WwRed HOMOZYGOUS--ww (this one is recessive because the white characteristic dominated in the heterozygous type)So:W ww Ww www Ww wwThese four are the potential types of the offspring, they will either be HETEROZYGOUS WHITE or HOMOZYGOUS RED, no homozygous white
Phenotype blending is illustrated in the inheritance of flower color in certain plants, such as snapdragons. When red-flowered snapdragons are crossed with white-flowered ones, the resulting offspring often exhibit a pink phenotype, demonstrating a mix of the parental traits. This blending occurs because neither color is completely dominant, leading to an intermediate expression in the offspring. This concept is a key feature of incomplete dominance in genetics.
In F 2 , he got 3:1 ratio in tall and dwarf pea plants .Phenotype - All TallTT x TtTT (75%) TallTt (25%) Tall
PP X ww or Pw X ww Because all Purple flower plants are dominant and express the color purple. This can be seen in a homozygous cross, or a heterozygous cross, ( shown above ) White plants, to breed true, must be in homozygous condition.
The principle of dominance.The gene for purple flowers is dominant, while the gene for white flowers is recessive. We know this because both flowers are homozygous, meaning their genes are the same. The genotype of Penelope (the purple flower) is PP, or purple purple. The genotype of Walter (the white flower) is pp, or white white. Because of this, if the gene for white petals was dominant, all the flower offspring would display white petals. If the genes were codominant, the flower offspring would be lavender, an even mix between the white and purple phenotypes.The Punnet square for this example (if you are a visual person) looks like this:......................Walter........................p | p....................___ | ___................P | Pp | Pp |Penelope .....________................P | Pp | Pp |...................|___|___ |You can clearly see that all the offspring are heterozygous, yet because they all share Penelope's phenotype, it is quite obvious that, again, the gene for purple flowers is dominant.
The observed ratio of 74 purple-flowered to 26 white-flowered offspring suggests a typical Mendelian inheritance pattern, likely indicating that purple is dominant over white. The 3:1 ratio (approximately) points to the parents being heterozygous for the purple trait (Pp) and homozygous recessive for the white trait (pp). Therefore, the probable genotypes of the parents are Pp (purple) and pp (white), resulting in the phenotypes of 74 purple-flowered and 26 white-flowered offspring.
A mating between a purebred purple flowered pea plant (which is typically dominant) and a purebred white flowered pea plant (which is recessive) would produce offspring that all exhibit the dominant trait. Therefore, the resulting offspring would all have purple flowers. This is based on Mendelian genetics, where the dominant allele masks the expression of the recessive allele.