Assertion: A geneticist crossed a pea plant having violet flowers with a pea plant having white flowers, he got all violet flowers in first generation.
Reason: White colour gene is not passed on to next generation.
Answer:
- Violet color flower gene is dominant over white color flower gene.
- Even though the white color gene is passed to the first generation , due to the dominance of the violet color flowers, all the flowers in the first generation will be violet .
- White color flowers will show its trait in the second generation.
Thus,
- The assertion is true.
- The reason is false.
So, the correct answer is (c)
