In pea plants the trait for tall stems is dominant over the trait for short stems. if two heterozygous tall plants are crossed , what percentage of the offspring would be expected to have thensame phentotype as the parents

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Answer:

75%

Explanation:

Tall stems are dominant over short stems. Let T represent tall and t represents short. The parents are Heterozygous tall plants, which means that their genotype would be Tt and their phenotype would be tall. In a Punnett square it would look like this:

      T    t

T   TT   Tt

t    Tt    tt

Notice that we have 3 possible genotype combinations. When the dominant allele T is present that means that the phenotype that will be expressed is the dominant trait. In this case we have the following genotype and phenotype:

TT      Tall         1/4

Tt       Tall         2/4

tt        Short      1/4

The question is asking the chance the pffspring phenotype is the same as the parent specifically so we can see that 3/4 are tall.

3/4 = 75%

The study of genes and inheritance is called genetics. There are two types of alleles and these are recessive and dominant.

The correct answer is 75%.

What are genes?

  • A gene is a basic unit of heredity and a sequence of nucleotides in DNA that encodes the synthesis of a gene product, either RNA or protein. During gene expression, the DNA is first copied into RNA.
  • The RNA can be directly functional or be the intermediate template for a protein that performs a function

Tall stems are dominant over short stems. Let T represent tall and t represent short. The parents are Heterozygous tall plants, which means that their genotype would be Tt and their phenotype would be tall. In a Punnett square it would look like this:

     T    t

T   TT   Tt

t   Tt    tt

Notice that we have 3 possible genotype combinations. When the dominant allele T is present that means that the phenotype that will be expressed is the dominant trait. In this case, we have the following genotype and phenotype:

TT     Tall        1/4

Tt       Tall         2/4

tt        Short      1/4

The question is asking the chance the offspring phenotype is the same as the parent specifically so we can see that 3/4 are tall.

Hence, the correct is 3/4 = 75%.

For more information about the genes, refer to the link:-

https://brainly.com/question/16759172

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