An educated guess that is aslo posed as a tentative explanation is called a hypothesis.
Answer: its mitosis
Explanation:
Cell division by mitosis occurs in all human body cells except the gonads (sex cells). During mitosis, the DNA is exactly copied and a new daughter cell created with the same number of chromosomes as the parent cell, ie 46.
PP- purple homozygote
pp- white homozygote
Pp- purple hetrozygote
If these flowers cross, we obtain heterozygote offsprings with a genotype: Pp (100% of them will be like this)
Now, if those offsprings cross with each other: Pp x Pp
results:
1/4 would be purple homozygote -> PP
1/4 would be white -> pp
2/4 would be purple heterozygotes -> Pp
Genotipic ratio: 3:1 (3 are purple; 1 is white)
