A plant breeder wants to breed a flowering plant species to produce seeds that will give a 50:50 mixture of blue and yellow flowers. In this species, the blue flower color is dominant and yellow is recessive. The breeder has a limited number of genotypes available in male plants and female plants. Connect one male genotype with one female genotype that the breeder could cross to obtain seeds with the desired mix of flower colors.

male genotypes

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female genotypes

Fr-

FF-

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Colin

11 June, 18:05

A plant breeder wants to breed a flowering plant species to produce seeds that will give a 50:50 mixture of blue and yellow flowers. In this species, the blue flower color is dominant and yellow is recessive. The breeder has a limited number of genotypes available in male plants and female plants. Connect one male genotype with one female genotype that the breeder could cross to obtain seeds with the desired mix of flower colors.

male genotypes

Ff-

ff-

female genotypes

Fr-

FF-

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Jairo Gates · Answer 1

Answer - you would use a Punnet Square to cross the kinds. In order to know which ones to use, you'd have to test them all. Without knowing what each letter codes for it is hard to show