<span>Photosynthesis makes the glucose that is used in cellular respiration to make ATP. The glucose is then turned back into carbon dioxide, which is used in photosynthesis. While water is broken down to form oxygen during photosynthesis, in cellular respiration oxygen is combined with hydrogen to form water.
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Answer:
The correct answer is peas have characteristics that have two forms.
Gregor Mendel used pea plant <em>Pisum sativum </em>as a model plant for his experiments. There are many applications behind his choice, one of which is observable characteristics with contrasting traits.
Pea plant has many observable characteristics which exist in two forms for example:
- Plant size (tall or dwarf)
- Pea color (green or yellow)
- Pod shape (yellow or green)
- Flower color (purple or white)
- Pea shape (round or wrinkled)
Other benefits were like: short life cycle, it produces a good number of offspring in a cross, easy to breed or cross-pollinate, hybrids were liable, bisexual flowers which makes it easy to produce true-breeding etc.
This model wasn't new, it has been proposed as early as the 3rd century BC by Aristarchus of Samos. Your teacher is looking for Nicolaus Copernicus, but he is a scammer.
Answer No 1:
The trait which is being studied in the cross is the height of the pea plant.
Answer No 2:
The two alleles for this trait are tall height allele which we can write as T and the allele for short height which we can write as t.
Answer No 3:
The allele for tall height is the dominant allele. We can say this because when a cross between a dominant homozyous and a recessive plant were made the offsprings resulted in the tall plants which is the F1 generation in the figure. As a dominant trait masks the recessive trait, hence we can say that the tall height allele is dominant over the short height allele.
Answer No 4:
The allele for short height t is recessive because as we can see the short height trait is being masked by the tall height trait in the F1 progeny. In F2 progeny, there are more number of tall height plants produced which further prove that short height is the recessive trait.
Answer No 5:
The F1 offsprings will have a dominant tall height allele, T, and a recessive short height allele, t. The dominant allele was inherited from the tall parent and the short height allele, t, was inherited from the recessive parent.
We can say that because the F2 progeny shows some plants to have short heights which is only possible if the F1 generation has heterozygous dominant (Tt) alleles.
