Question

Work out a dihybrid cross upto F₂ generation between pea plants bearing violet coloured axial flowers and white coloured terminal flowers using Punnet’s square. Give their F₂ phenotypic ratio. State the Mendel’s law of inheritance that was derived from such a cross.

Answer 1

Cross between pea plants bearing violet-coloured axial flowers and white-coloured terminal flowers:

Law of Independent Assortment: When two pairs of traits are combined in a hybrid segregation, one pair of characters is independent of the other pair of characters.