Self-crossing Mendel's yellow-seeded F2 plants showed that the fraction breeding true was:
ATwo thirds of them
BThree quarters of them
COne third of them
DOne half of them
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. One third of them
1. Yellow F2 plants are a mixture of two different genotypes.
2. When he self-crossed the F2 plants expressing yellow seeds, he found that one-third of the plants bred true.
3. The other two-thirds segregated at a 3 to 1 ratio of yellow to green seeds.
4. The true-breeding plants had homozygous YY genotypes.
5. The segregating plants corresponded to the heterozygous Yy genotype.
_Source: OpenStax Biology for AP(R) Courses (CC BY 4.0), Ch 12 'Mendel's Experiments and Heredity', sections 12.1-12.3_
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