Question

in a group of tomato plants, some individuals have smooth fruit and others have fuzzy fruit. in this group, the gene for the fruit texture trait has two alleles. the allele f is for smooth fruit, and the allele f is for fuzzy fruit. a certain tomato plant from this group has fuzzy fruit. this plant has two alleles for fuzzy fruit. based on this information, click the blue words to correct any errors in the text. this tomato plants phenotype for the fruit texture trait is smooth fruit. this tomato plant is homozygous for the fruit texture gene. this tomato plants genotype for the fruit texture gene is ff. submit

Explanation:

• Phenotype refers to the observable physical characteristics. Since the plant has fuzzy fruit, the phenotype should be fuzzy fruit, not smooth fruit.
• Genotype is the genetic makeup. Given that the allele \(f\) is for fuzzy fruit and the plant has two alleles for fuzzy fruit, the genotype is \(ff\) (homozygous as it has two of the same alleles).

Answer:

• "smooth fruit" should be changed to "fuzzy fruit".