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In garden pea plants, an inflated pod shape (I) is dominant over a pinched pod (i). The cross between two true breeding inflated pods can be represented by
Select one:
 IIII
IIii
Iiii
 IiIi
 iiii

5 years ago

Answered By Alisha E

True breeding refers to a plant that has always produced offpsring with the same phenotype, meaning that it is homozygous. So if it is true breeding inflated, then all of its offspring when self-fertilized are inflated as its genotype in this case is ll. If you cross two true breeding inflated pods (ll x ll) then all of the offspring will be inflated as both parent pods can only produce inflated offspring. Thus, this can be represented by the first choice (llll).