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NEET UG BIOLOGY MCQ: PRINCIPLE OF INHERITANCE AND VARIATION
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Assertion: A geneticist crossed two plants and got 50% tall and 50% dwarf progenies
Reason: This cross follows mendelian law as one of the parent plant might be heterozygous
Reason: This cross follows mendelian law as one of the parent plant might be heterozygous
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Correct option: A
Both Assertion and Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion
Option A (Both Assertion and Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion) is correct because a cross between a heterozygous tall plant (Tt) and a homozygous recessive dwarf plant (tt) would result in 50% tall (Tt) and 50% dwarf (tt) offspring, and the reason correctly identifies the heterozygous nature of one parent.
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