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In a certain seed color can be yellow or green. Seed shape can be smooth of wrin

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Question

In a certain seed color can be yellow or green. Seed shape can be smooth of wrinkled. Complete the Punnett Square for the cross between two plants that are heterozygous for seed color and seed shape. Both parents are smooth and green. Determine the phenotypic ratio for the offspring.



Parental Phenotypes: X

Parental Genotypes: X

Parental Gametes: X



Phenotypic ratio:

Smooth/green:

Wrinkled/green:

Smooth/yellow:

Wrinkled/yellow:

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(sorry for the poorly made punnett square diagram, if it were in exel, the first box, would be A1 and would not be there, picture a 5 by five punnett square but the upper left hand corner box is not there, leading me to believe that all in column and row one are titles)

Explanation / Answer

The parents are smooth and green

smooth - WW, wrinkled - ww, yellow -YY, green - yy

WWyy x WWyy

Progeny are - WWyy - all are smooth and green

But it is given that parents are heterozygous in nature.

smooth - WW, Ww, wrinkled - ww, yellow -YY, green - Yy, yy

WwYy x WwYy

Progeny-

           WY          Wy        wY         wy

WY   WWYY      WWYy      WwYY    WwYy

Wy WWYy       WWyy      WwYy    Wwyy

wY WwYY        WwYy      wwYY    wwYy

wy WwYy        Wwyy      wwYy    wwyy

Phenotypic ratio =

Smooth, yellow- 3

Smooth, green - 9

wrinkled, yellow - 1

wrinkled, green - 3