To produce pea plants that only display the recessive phenotype of a trait, what must be the genotypes of the parent plants?
1 Answer
Dec 7, 2016
The parent plants must only contain the recessive genotype.
Explanation:
If a parent contained a dominant genotype, at least some of its offspring would display the dominant phenotype.
For the recessive trait to be displayed in the phenotype for all offspring, their genotypes must contain only the recessive gene (they must be