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When a tall pea plant was selfed, it produced one-fourth of its progeny as dwarf. Explain with the help of a cross.

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Production of one fourth dwarf progeny on selfing of a tall pea plant indicates that the plant is heterozygous. This can be explained with the cross as below :

results : 3 tall : 1 Dwarf
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