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Colored aleurone in the kernels of corn is due to the dominant allele R. The recessive all...

Colored aleurone in the kernels of corn is due to the dominant allele R. The recessive allele r, when homozygous, produces colorless aleurone. The plant color (not the kernel color) is controlled by another gene with two alleles, Y and y. The dominant Y allele results in green color, whereas the homozygous presence of the recessive y allele causes the plant to appear yellow. In a testcross between a plant of unknown genotype and

phenotype and a plant that is homozygous recessive for both traits, the following progeny were obtained:

colored, green

88

colored, yellow

12

colorless, green

8

colorless, yellow

92

Explain how these results were obtained by determining the exact genotype and phenotype of the unknown plant, including the precise arrangement of the alleles on the homologs.

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