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A pea plant parent having violet coloured flowers with unknown genotype was a plant having white coloured flowers in the progeny 50% of the flowers were violet and 50% were white. The genotype constitution of the parent having violet coloured flower was:

A

Homozygous

B

Merozygous

C

Heterozygous

D

Hemizygous

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C
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