You have a pea with yellow seeds and a pea with green seeds, both from pure breeding lines.  When you cross them all of the offspring have green seeds.  If you cross two of the offspring, what proportion of the next generation will be heterozygotes?  Assume the trait is influenced by a single locus. Group of answer choices A. 25% B. 75% C. 100% D. 50% E. 0

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You have a pea with yellow seeds and a pea with green seeds, both from pure breeding lines.  When you cross them all of the offspring have green seeds.  If you cross two of the offspring, what proportion of the next generation will be heterozygotes?  Assume the trait is influenced by a single locus.

Group of answer choices
A. 25%
B. 75%
C. 100%
D. 50%
E. 0
 
 
 
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Because the second generation has all green seeds so, green seed allele is dominant over yellow one.

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