Question 1 Report
(a) Define crop improvement. [2 marks]
(b) Copy and complet the table below based on Mendel's Law of Indepen-dent Assortment of Genes (Dihybrid inheritance).
TC | Tc | tC | tc | |
TC | TTCC | |||
Tc | Ttcc | |||
tC | ttCc | |||
tc | ttcC |
Use the following information: T = Tall; C = Coloured; t = Dwarf; c = White. (Where T and C are dominant character; while t and c are recessive TC TTCC characters) [6 marks]
(c) Calculate the percentage of plants in (b) above that are: (i) Tall coloured; (ii) Tall white; (iii) Dwarf coloured; (iv) Dwarf Tc Ttcc white [8 marks]