What was the purpose of mendel's experiments with dihybrid crosses?
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a. to find out if animals produced haploid cells or diploid cells
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b. to find out if pea plants had traits with more than two alleles
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c. to find out if recessive traits could be passed to offspring
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d. to find out if traits could affect the inheritance of other traits
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The purpose of Mendel’s dihybrid cross experiment was to find out if one trait can affect the inheritance of other traits.

Option D

Explanation:

In every living organism there are innumerable characters and each of those character is regulated by alleles. Alleles are basically a form of gene.  Mendel carried out dihybrid cross experiment  in order to understand whether or not a pair of allele affects the inheritance of another pair of alleles. Mendel conducted this experiment by using three steps: Firstly he selected parents and obtained the pure lines. His next step was Emasculation , Dusting and Raising F1 Generation, and lastly he inbreed-ed F1 hybrids so that it can produce F2 generation. And his experiment turned out to be a success.

Since a female is both xx chromosome and the male passes down the x chromosome, than the offspring would be female since a female is xx.