Suppose Mendel Had an Assistant Who Sometimes Forgot to Emasculate

question 131

Multiple Choice

Suppose Mendel had an assistant who sometimes forgot to emasculate the short plants before placing pollen from the homozygous tall plants on the pistils of the short plant flowers.As a result, about 2/3 of the pollen that fertilized the short flowers came from short plants.What fraction of the progeny from this cross would have been tall? (Recall that the trait of tall is dominant to short.)

• A) 1/3
• B) 1/2
• C) 2/3
• D) 3/4
• E) All of the progeny from this cross would have been tall.

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