When an albino female plant of maizeis crossed with normal green male plant, all plants in the progeny are albino because

  • [AIPMT 1989]
  • A

    Plastids are inherited through maternal plants

  • B

    Albinism is dominant over green character

  • C

    The crossing results in structural changes in green plastids

  • D

    Green plastids of male parents become mutated

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