Question

in a group of pea plants, some individuals have yellow peas and others have green peas. in this group, the gene for the pea color trait has two alleles. the allele for green peas (e) is recessive to the allele for yellow peas (e). the punnett square below shows a cross between two pea plants. consider the phenotypes and genotypes of the offspring shown. select all the boxes that represent offspring with a homozygous genotype that have green peas. the punnett square has columns labeled e and e, and rows labeled e and e. the cells are: e row, e column: ee; e row, e column: ee; e row, e column: ee; e row, e column: ee (with a hand icon pointing to the last ee).

Explanation:

Step1: Recall Genotype/Phenotype Rules

Homozygous means same alleles (e.g., \(ee\) or \(EE\)). Green peas are recessive, so need \(ee\) (since \(e\) is recessive to \(E\); \(Ee\) would be yellow as dominant allele \(E\) is present).

Step2: Analyze Punnett Square Boxes

• Top row (E) with e columns: \(Ee\) (heterozygous, yellow phenotype).
• Bottom row (e) with e columns: \(ee\) (homozygous, green phenotype). So the two boxes with \(ee\) (bottom - left and bottom - right) are homozygous green.

Answer:

The boxes with genotype \(ee\) (the bottom - left box with \(ee\) and the bottom - right box with \(ee\))