Crossing Smooth-Seeded Pea Plants with Wrinkled-Seeded Pea Plants Resulted in Progeny

question 49

Multiple Choice

Crossing smooth-seeded pea plants with wrinkled-seeded pea plants resulted in progeny that all had smooth seeds. This indicates that the wrinkled-seed trait is

• A) codominant and dominant.
• B) recessive only.
• C) codominant and recessive.
• D) dominant only.
• E) codominant only.

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