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Questions for Discussion: Some Genes Are Dominant
- If yellow pea color is dominant over green pea color, then why haven't all pea plants become yellow seeded?
- If the cross between a pure-bred plant with green peas and a pure-bred plant with yellow peas resulted in 100 offspring, how many would have green peas and how many would have yellow? Explain.
- You are using pea flower color as a trait to do plant breeding experiments. You have a pure-bred purple flower plant and a pure-bred white flower plant. How do you find out which color is dominant?