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By crossing homozygous short purple flowering parent with a heterozygous tall purple flowering parent you get 41 tall progeny. What will be the expected number of short progenies?(a) 12(b) 42(c) 60(d) 80I have been asked this question by my school principal while I was bunking the class.This interesting question is from Dihybrid Cross in portion Mendelian Genetics of Cytogenetics

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The correct option is (b) 42

To elaborate: This is a CASE of a test cross for the Height allele. The ratio should be 1:1 for short: tall. If there are 41 tall progeny there must be a SIMILAR number SAY 42 of short ones.



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