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In Tomatoes, the Alleles for a Gene Controlling Fruit Shape

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In tomatoes, the alleles for a gene controlling fruit shape assort independently of the alleles of a gene controlling fruit colour. Round-shaped fruit are dominant to oval-shaped fruit and red fruit are dominant to yellow fruit. A homozygous, red, round-fruit tomato plant is crossed to a tomato plant with yellow oval fruit to produce an F1 generation. F1 plants were crossed to plants that were homozygous red and heterozygous round. You would expect the offspring to be


A) 9 round red: 3 round yellow: 3 oval red: 1 oval yellow.
B) 1 round red: 1 oval red.
C) 1 round red: 1 round yellow: 1 oval red: 1 oval yellow.
D) 3 round red: 1 oval red.
E) 3 round red: 1 oval yellow.

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