Saturday, July 25, 2015

If two plants that were both true-breeding for the same trait had offspring, how would the traits of the P and F1 generations compare?

True-breeding plants have two of the same alleles for a particular trait. Therefore, the genotypes of true-breeding plants are homozygous recessive or homozygous dominant. Thus, true-breeding plants have only one type of allele to pass onto their offspring. If two individuals that were each true-breeding for the same characteristic had offspring, then their offspring would also be true-breeding for that trait.  


For example, say both parents were homozygous dominant (DD) for a trait. Then, the cross could be represented as such:


DD x DD


                    D                                      D


D               DD                                      DD



D               DD                                      DD


All offspring would also be homozygous dominant for that trait.


Likewise, if all two parents that were homozygous recessive (dd) for a trait had offspring, then the following cross would result:



                     d                                      d


d                 dd                                      dd



d                 dd                                      dd


All offspring would also be homozygous recessive for that trait.

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