In a field of sunflower plants, 776 plants are tall and 224 plants are short. Sunflower height follows the normal pattern of inheritance. Dominant traits masks recessive. Tall (T) is dominant and short (t) is recessive. What is the genotype of the short plants in the field?

Question

In a field of sunflower plants, 776 plants are tall and 224 plants are short. Sunflower height follows the normal pattern of inheritance. Dominant traits masks recessive. Tall (T) is dominant and short (t) is recessive. What is the genotype of the short plants in the field?
Responses
A	TT
B	TTTT
C	TtTt
D	tttt

GPT-4o mini · Answer

In the context of sunflower height inheritance, tall (T) is dominant, and short (t) is recessive. Since short plants express the recessive phenotype, they must have the genotype that includes two recessive alleles.

The only genotype that corresponds to the short phenotype is tt.

Among the options provided, the correct choice that represents the genotype of the short plants is:

D tttt

However, "tttt" is not a standard notation for carrying two recessive alleles. The correct form should simply be tt. Based on the options and the understanding of genotype, it appears that option D might be intended to represent that.