To determine whether a tall plant is heterozygous or homozygous what should it be crossed with

To determine whether the plant is heterozygous or homozygous, it should be crossed with a heterozygous plant.

This is because, let's say that the plant in question is heterozygous. When crossed with this known heterozygous plant, some of the offspring will then be homozygous recessive, and thus display the recessive phenotype (short plant) for the gene being tested.

If the plant in question is homozygous, all of the offspring will display a dominant phenotype (tall plant) due to the masking of the recessive gene of the known heterozygous plant.

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prophase: we can observe the chromosomes to coil up and condense. they become visible. nuclear membrane and envelope disintigrate.s

metaphase: chromosomes align at the center, the metaphase plate. spindle fibers attach to centromeres of the sister chromatids. they meet at kinetochores.

anaphase: sister chromatids are pulled towards each opposing centromere, set on different poles.

telophase: chromosomes are now clustered up only on either sides of the cell. nuclear membranes reform, and a new cell wall forms along the cell plate. this will lead to cytokinesis, the process that divides the cell membrane and forms the cell wall.