Gregor Mendel carried out a cross between two pea plants by taking pollen from a plant that was homozygous for round seeds and dusting the pollen onto the stigma of a plant homozygous for wrinkled seeds.Which of the following would be the reciprocal cross that Mendel had carried out for this experiment?
A)Homozygous round stigma pollinated with pollen from a homozygous wrinkled plant
B)Homozygous round stigma pollinated with pollen from a heterozygous wrinkled plant
C)Heterozygous round stigma pollinated with pollen from a homozygous wrinkled plant
D)Homozygous wrinkled stigma pollinated with pollen from a homozygous round plant
E)Homozygous wrinkled stigma pollinated with pollen from a homozygous wrinkled plant

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A reciprocal cross involves reversing the roles of the male and female in the original cross. In this case, the original cross used pollen from a homozygous round seed plant to fertilize a homozygous wrinkled seed plant. The reciprocal would involve using pollen from the homozygous wrinkled seed plant to fertilize a homozygous round seed plant.

Gregor Mendel Carried Out a Cross Between Two Pea Plants