Answer:
A. The dominant factor, or allele, is for round seeds.
Explanation:
Gregor Mendel discovered the principles that governs inheritance. During his numerous experiments, he conducted a cross in pea plants involving a single character. This cross is called MONOHYBRID CROSS. In one of these monohybrid crosses, he observed the gene for seed shape in pea plants. He discovered that two alleles are responsible for the expression of this gene: round allele (R) and wrinkled allele (r).
He crossed plants that produced only round seeds i.e. homozygous RR and plants that produced only wrinkled seeds, rr. He observed that the F1 offsprings were all round-seeded. This made him to propose his LAW OF DOMINANCE, which states that an allele is capable of masking the expression of another in a gene. He concluded that the round allele is covering the wrinkled allele in a heterozygous state, since it is expressed over it. He then called the round allele, DOMINANT allele and the wrinkled allele, RECESSIVE allele.
Answer:
No.
Explanation:
Pink flower colour in snapdragon is as a result of incomplete dominance. The pink flower colour has no allele in nature. Instead, the pink colour results from incomplete dominance of the allele that codes for red flower colour over the allele that codes for the white flower colour.
Assuming that the allele for red flower colour in the plant is R and the allele for white flower colour is r, true breeding red and white flower colour plants will have the genotype RR and rr respectively. In heterozygote state (Rr), the phenotype is usually pink, showing that the R allele has incomplete dominance over the r allele.
<em>Hence, there is no way for plant breeders to develop a true-breeding pink-flowered snapdragon. without some genetic manipulations/mutation.</em>
