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(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.

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

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(a) Parent :         VVAA(Violet,Axial)                      vvaa (white, terminal)   

                                VA                                                va

                                                        \downarrow

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.

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