The colour of the fruit of tomato plants is determined by alleles of the same gene. A tomato plant with red fruit was crossed with a tomato plant with yellow fruit. Of the offspring, 26 plants had red fruit and 24 had yellow fruit. Three explanations were suggested. 1 Both parents were homozygous. 2 One parent had two recessive alleles. 3 One parent was heterozygous. Which explanations are correct?
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D: 2 and 3
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