red fruit is dominant over yellow fruit in tomatoes. the mating of a red fruit bearing tomato plant with yellow fruit bearing plants yielded 173 plants . out of these, 84borered fruits while, 89 bore yellow fruits .the genotype of the parents is most likely to be?

The offsprings are 84 red fruits and 89 yellow fruits.
So, the ratio of the two is nearly 1:1
This shows that the cross is a test cross where the two parents are -
Heterozygous dominant and homozygous recessive.

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