Principle Of Inheritance And Variation Question 384

Question: A pea plant with purple flowers is heterozygous for flower colour. Its genotype is Pp. The P and p alleles in the pea plant’s cells are located:

Options:

A) next to each other on the same chromosome.

B) at the same location on homologous chromosomes.

C) on the X and Y chromosomes.

D) some distance apart on the same chromosome.

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Answer:

Correct Answer: B

Solution:

[b] Genes coding for the same trait are located at the same locus on homologous chromosomes.