Assume that in a series of experiments, plants with round seeds were crossed with plants with wrinkled seeds and the following offspring were obtained: 220 round and 180 wrinkled

(a) What is the most probable genotype of each parent?
(b) What genotypic and phenotypic ratios are expected?
(c) Based on the information provided in part (b), what are the expected (theoretical) numbers of progeny (400 total) of each phenotypic class?


(a) assuming that round (W) is dominant to wrinkled (w): Ww × ww
(b) 1:1
(c) 200

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