Homozygous tall pea plants look the same as heterozygous tall pea plants. Formulate a pollination experiment to identify whether a tall pea plant is homozygous or heterozygous. Explain your answer in 3-5 sentences.
To determine whether a tall pea plant is homozygous or heterozygous, a pollination experiment can be conducted by cross-pollinating the plant with a dwarf pea plant. If the resulting offspring are all tall, then the tall plant is most likely homozygous. However, if some of the offspring are dwarf, then the tall plant is likely heterozygous. This is because the tall plant, being homozygous, can only produce tall offspring, while the heterozygous plant can produce both tall and dwarf offspring due to the presence of the recessive allele for dwarfism.
