In pea plants, round seeds are dominant and wrinkled seeds are recessive. A pea plant with round seeds was pollinated with a pea plant with wrinkled seeds. The offspring produced round seeds. One of the offspring was mated with a pea plant with heterozygous genes for round seeds.
What are the chances that the offspring will have wrinkled seeds?
1/4. Assume round gene as A and wrinkled gene as a. First we can learn that plant with wrinkled seeds must has gene aa because gene a is recessive. Because the offspring produces all round seeds, the gene of the offspring must be Aa. The heterogeneous plant, literally, has gene Aa too. So the seeds after mated should have 3 types: AA, Aa, aa and the ratio will be 1:2:1. the wrinkled seeds have gene aa, so the chance is 1/(1+2+1)=1/4.
