(a) Work out a dihybrid cross upto F2 generation between pea plants bearing violet coloured axial flowers and white coloured terminal flowers. Give their phenotypic ratio.
(b) State the Mendel’s law of inheritance that was derived from such a cross.
(a) Parent : VVAA(Violet,Axial) vvaa (white, terminal)
VA va
F1 VvAa(Violet , Axial)
VA | vA | Va | va | |
VA |
VVAA Viole,t Axial |
VaAA Violet, axial |
VVAa Violet ,Axial |
VaAa Violet, Axial |
vA |
VvAA Violet,Axial |
vvAA White ,Axial |
VvAa Violet, Axial |
vvAa White, Axial |
Va |
VVAa Violet, Axial |
VvAa Violet, Axial |
VVaa Violet, terminal |
Vvaa Violet, terminal |
va |
VvAa Violet, Axial |
vvAa White, Axial |
Vvaa Violet, terminal |
vvaa white, terminal |
Phenotype | Violet,Axial | White,Axial | Violet, Terminal | White, Terminal |
Phenotypic ratio | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
(b) Law of independent Assortment, when two pairs of traits are combined in hybrid segregation of one pair characters is independent of other pair of characters.