In pease, smooth seeds are dominant to wrinkled seeds. When a plant with smooth seeds was crossed with a plant

Question

having wrinkled seeds, 50% of the offspring were smooth and 50% were wrinkled. What does this indicate about smooth-seed parent? A. it was homozygous recessive B. it was homozygous dominant C. it was probably "true-breeding" D. its genotype is unknown E. it was heterozygous

Answer 1

it's heterozygous.

a) would give all wrinkled seeds

b) would give all smooth heterozygous plants

c) i don't even known what this means

d) is wrong since we do know it's heterozygous