If you cross two pea plants, one with green peas and the other with yellow peas, you find all of the offspring have yellow peas. You conclude the yellow parent was

A. homozygous for the recessive allele.
B. heterozygous.
C. homozygous for the dominant gene.
D. homozygous for the dominant allele.
E. homozygous for the recessive gene.


D. homozygous for the dominant allele.

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