Question: Leaf shape is a Mendelian trait in certain species of tomato. How could you determine which leaf shape, rounded or pointed, is dominant and which is recessive? Need Assignment Help?
O Compare the survival rates of round leaf versus pointed leaf tomato plants. Whichever leaf type improves the ability of a tomato plant to survive is the dominant trait.
O Count the number of tomato plants with rounded and pointed leaves in a large population of tomato plants. The leaf shape that is most common is the dominant trait.
O Cross a true-breeding round leaf tomato plant with a true-breeding pointed leaf tomato plant. All of their offspring will have the dominant trait for leaf shape.
O Cross a true-breeding pointed leaf tomato plant with another true-breeding pointed leaf tomato plant. If all their offspring are have pointed leaves, then pointed leaves is the dominant trait.