NEET 2024, Biology Q21: Mendel's laws of Inheritance

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In a plant, black seed colour ( $B B / B b$ ) is dominant over white seed colour ( $bb$ ). In order to find out the genotype of the black seed plant, with which of the following genotype will you cross it?

A
$B b$
B
$B B / B b$
C
$B B$
D
$bb$

Solution

To determine whether a dominant-phenotype individual is homozygous ( $B B$ ) or heterozygous ( $B b$ ), a test cross is performed by crossing it with the homozygous recessive ( $bb$ ). If all offspring are black, the parent is $B B$ ; if half are white, the parent is $B b$ .

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