Question

Suppose that you are an explorer who has found a new species of plant. Some of the plants have red flowers and some have yellow flowers. You cross a red-flowered plant with a yellow-flowered plant and all the offspring have orange flowers. What is the most probable explanation

Answer 1

Answer:

Incomplete dominance

Explanation:

In genetics, incomplete dominance refers to an inheritance mode in which two gene variants (i.e., alleles) of the same locus combine in a way that neither allele dominates the other. This phenomenon is similar to codominance, but in this last case, both alleles are dominant. Incomplete dominance produces a new phenotypic trait resulting from the combination of both non-dominant alleles. An example of incomplete dominance includes the pink color of snapdragons resulting from the cross of red-flowered snapdragons with white-flowered snapdragons.