A botanist studying the inheritance of flower color found that when she crossed the offspring of two pure-breeding flower lines,

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A botanist studying the inheritance of flower color found that when she crossed the offspring of two pure-breeding flower lines,

one purple and one white, she got the following F2 generation from planting 60 seeds: 17 plants with purple flowers, 26 plants with lavender flowers, and 15 plants with white flowers.

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Gemiola [76] · Answer 1 · 2021-12-11T06:52:03+03:00

Answer:

This is known as incomplete dominance

Explanation:

The phenotype of a heterozygous organism can actually be a combination between the phenotypes of its homozygous parents.The heterozygous offspring and the incomplete dominance of the purple trait are a phenotypic intermediate between the parents