A plant breeder is raising many varieties of plants. As a part of the breeding program, he raises pure line varieties by continuous inbreeding over several generations – one with red flowers and another with white flowers. How can Mendel's laws be demonstrated by hybridization between these varieties?

1. Set up a monohybrid cross and determine if your F2 results are predicted by a 3:1 ratio based on the law of segregation.
2. Set up a dihybrid cross and determine if your F2 results are predicted by a 9:3:3:1 ratio based on the law of independent assortment.
3. Set a test cross to demonstrate that your traits breed true.
4. Set up a two-point test cross to demonstrate that your genes are linked.
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Which of the following observations regarding a monohybrid cross cannot be explained with the Law of Dominance?

1. Expression of only one of the parental characters in F1
2. Expression of both parental characters in F2
3. 3:1 phenotypic ratio in F2
4. A gamete receives only one of the two-unit factors present in the parent
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It is said that Mendel proposed that the factor controlling any character is discrete and independent. His proposition was based on the:
 

1. results of the F3 generation of a cross
2. observations that the offspring of a cross made between the plants having two contrasting characters shows only one character without any blending
3. self-pollination of F1 offspring
4. cross-pollination of F1 generation with recessive parent
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One of the crosses conducted by Mendel was a ‘test cross’. This cross can be used to:
1. determine whether the individual is heterozygous or homozygous dominant
2. determine whether a gene is located on a sex chromosome or an autosome
3. differentiate between incomplete dominance and codominance
4. identify linkage between two genes
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A heterozygous tall pea plant is allowed to self-pollinate. What proportion of tall progeny will be heterozygous tall?
1. ¼ 2. 2/3
3. ½ 4. ¾
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