Green seed color is recessive in pea plants. During fertilization, a pea plant receives one recessive gene for seed color from a sperm cell. The plant produces green seeds. The gene from the egg cell must have been:O recessiveO dominantcannot tell

Green seed color is recessive in pea plants. During fertilization, a p

1.	Green seed color is recessive in pea plants. During fertilization, a pea plant receives one recessive gene for seed color from a sperm cell. The plant produces green seeds. The gene from the egg cell must have been:O recessiveO dominantcannot tell
Answer» recessiveExplanation:the GENE from egg cell must have been recessive because only a HOMOGENEOUS recessive gametes can produce character associated with recessive gametes. if there would have been DOMINANT trait then the color of the seed can not be green as dominant gene do not SHOW green color.thank you