SIR1005 Tutorial - Amirul Asyraaf Bin Mohd Muhsen U2100909

1. Advantages of using pea plants as an experimental organism.

• The cost of seeds is cheap.
• Seven distinct traits to experiment with.
• Short life cycle.

2.
Self - fertilization
Involve transferring pollen of one plant to
stigma of the same plant
Involve one plant with one trait only
The detect or produce true breeding plants
Cross - hybridization
Involve transferring pollen of one plant to
stigma of another plant
Involve two plants with different trait
To study outcome of crossing two different
traits

3. 8 years

4. The data in the table shows the existence of homozygous dominant and heterozygous
genotypes. At first the plants of for example, round seed trait looks the same. However,
some is true breeding, and some are not. This is because the ratio of round seed plant with
homozygous dominant to heterozygous is 1:2. This can be shown in the outcome of F2
generation. The homozygous dominant strain will produce true breeding phenotype while
the heterozygous strain will produce non-true breeding phenotype when self-pollinated.

5.
Monohybrid Dihybrid
To study the dominance of one trait to To study how one set of traits assort among
another. the offspring.
Involve one pair of allele or trait. Involve two pairs of alleles or traits.
Genotype ratio is 1:2:1 Genotype ratio is 1:2:1:2:4:2:1:2:1