(a) A garden pea plant bearing terminal, violet flowers, when crossed with another pea plant bearing axial, violet flowers, produced axial, violet flowers and axial, white flowers in the ratio of 3 : 1.
Work out the cross showing the genotypes of the parent pea plants and their progeny.
(b) Name and state the law that can be derived from this cross and not from a monohybrid cross.

Explanation

(b) Law ofIndependent Assortment.
The law states that when two pairs of traits hre combined in a hybrid, segregation of one pair of characters is independent of the other pair of character.