Probability of Inheritance Answers

Which describes the notation Tt for the trait of plant height?

A plant can produce either purple flowers or white flowers. The purple flower color is dominant over the white flower color. What is the ratio of the offspring with purple flowers to the total number of offspring if two plants that are heterozygous for purple flowers are crossed?

There are two different alleles for flower color, P and p. The image shows a white sweet pea with a genotypeo of pp.What can you surmise from the labeled image?

Which includes the physical characteristics of an organism?

There are two different alleles for flower color, P and p. The image shows a purple sweet pea that is labeled with its two alleles for petal color.Which is the genotype of the sweet pea?

Which describes the mating of organisms that have different homozygous alleles for a single trait?

The Punnett square predicts the ratio of genotypes in the offspring, based on the genotypes of the parents. The Punnett square below examines the chance of offspring having freckles, which is a dominant trait.Based on the Punnett square, what is the probability that the offspring will have freckles?

What is one of the reasons why Gregor Mendel chose to study pea plants?

Purple flowers are dominant over white flowers. A heterozygous purple flower is crossed with another heterozygous purple flower. What will the ratio of purple to white be?

Gregor Mendel crossed homozygous tall plants (TT) with homozygous short plants (tt). All the resulting offspring were tall. From these results, what conclusion did Mendel draw?