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Agriculture · Q877

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 877

Q877

Exception to Mendel's law

A.
Pigeon pea
B.
Garden pea
C.
Wild pea
D.
Mirabilis
Answer

Answer: Option D

Solution

Answer: Option D
Solution:
The exception to Mendel's law is Mirabilis.
Mendel described dominance but not incomplete dominance. Had he worked with Mirabilis jalapa rather than pea he would have pondered the cross of a plant with red flowers by one with white flowers.
All progeny were pink flowered, an intermediate phenotype. An individual who is heterozygous for a gene has two different alleles, but it is not always sufficient to produce an intermediate phenotype.