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Why did Mendel carry out an experiment to study inheritance of two traits in garden-pea ?(b) What were his findings with respect to inheritance of traits in F1 and F2 generation ?(c) State the ratio obtained in the F2 generation in the above mentioned experiment. |
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Answer» Solution : When two pairs of contrasting characters were studied simultaneously, it was FOUND that two TRAITS are inherited independent of each other. (b) SINCE in F1, all are heterozygous for both traits, so yellow and round are dominant traits. These traits are not inherited together and hence there are two new recombinants. Thus, they are inherited independently. (C) In F2 the PARENTAL and recombinants ratios are : 
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