NEET Biology Principle Of Inheritance And Variation Question Bank Critical Thinking

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    In a certain plant, red flowers (R) are dominant to white flowers (r) and tallness (T) is dominant to dwarfness (t). A heterozygous plant (RrTt) is backcrossed with a double recessive plant (rrtt). If the gene loci for colour and size and situated very close together on the same chromosome, the expected percentage of offsprings could be approximately

    A)
    tall red tall white dwarf red dwarf white
    25% 25% 25% 25%

    B)
    49%, 49% 1% 1%

    C)
    49% 1% 1% 49%

    D)
    1% 1% 49% 49%

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

      Due to linkage new combinations are minimum.


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