Question 6

(a) Define crop improvement. [2 marks]

(b) Copy and complet the table below based on Mendel's Law of Indepen-dent Assortment of Genes (Dihybrid inheritance).

  TC Tc tC tc
TC TTCC      
Tc   Ttcc    
tC       ttCc
tc     ttcC  

Use the following information: T = Tall; C = Coloured; t = Dwarf; c = White. (Where T and C are dominant character; while t and c are recessive TC TTCC characters) [6 marks]

(c) Calculate the percentage of plants in (b) above that are: (i) Tall coloured; (ii) Tall white; (iii) Dwarf coloured; (iv) Dwarf Tc Ttcc white [8 marks] 

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Question details

Exam body
WAEC
Subject
Agricultural Science
Year
2008
Question no.
#6
Type
Theory

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