Question

in a group of ornamental gourd plants, some individuals have yellow fruit and others have green fruit. in this group, the gene for the fruit color trait has two alleles. the allele f is for yellow fruit, and the allele f is for green fruit. a certain ornamental gourd plant is from this group. this ornamental gourd plants phenotype for the fruit color trait is yellow fruit. this plants genotype for the fruit color gene is ff. based on this information, complete the following statement. this ornamental gourd plant is ______ for the fruit color gene. homozygous heterozygous

Explanation:

In genetics, if an organism has two identical alleles (like \(FF\)) for a particular gene, it is called homozygous. If it has two different alleles (like \(Ff\)), it is heterozygous. Here, the plant has \(FF\) genotype.

Answer:

homozygous