Some plants fail to produce chlorophyll, due to a recessive trait, and are colored white. if we locate a pea plant that is heterozygous for this trait, self-pollinate it, and harvest the seeds, what are the likely phenotypes of the resulting offspring?

The correct answer will be 3 green (75%) and 1 white(25%).

Explanation:

Failing to produce the chlorophyll is a recessive trait so it will act as like any recessive trait in normal genetic inheritance pattern like monohybrid cross. Let assume the white color is denoted by g and green color is denoted by G in a pea plant so the heterozygous pea plant would be Gg.

Self-pollination of this pea plant will produce the same inheritance pattern as any other monohybrid heterozygous self-pollination do which is a 3:1 ratio of phenotypic ratio. In this 3 or 75% are dominant green color and 1 or 25% is white-colored.

Thus, the correct answer is - 3 green (75%) and 1 white(25%).