Use the figure and the following description to answer the question(s) below.
-Which of the boxes marked 1-4 correspond to plants with a heterozygous genotype?
A) 1
B) 1 and 2
C) 1, 2, and 3
D) 2 and 3
E) 2, 3, and 4

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In order to have a heterozygous genotype, an individual must have two different alleles for a particular gene. In this figure, only boxes 2 and 3 show two different color alleles for the gene in question, whereas boxes 1 and 4 have the same color alleles, indicating a homozygous genotype. Therefore, the correct answer is D) 2 and 3.

Use the Figure and the Following Description to Answer the Question(s)