Question
A plant breeder performs a test cross by crossing an F1 plant, heterozygous for two independently assorting genes (AaBb), with a plant homozygous recessive for both genes (aabb). According to Mendel's law of independent assortment, in what ratio are the four possible phenotypic classes expected to appear among the test cross offspring?
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