In a certain variety of plants, a cross between a red-flowered plant and a white-flowered plant

produced an all-red flower F1. In the F2 there were 140 red-flowered plants, 50 cream-flowered plants,
and 65 white-flowered plants.
(a) Offer an explanation for this F2 ratio.
(b) What ratio would be produced in a testcross of the F1 hybrid?
(c) What ratio would be produced if all the white-flowered F2 plants were crossed among
themselves? What will be an ideal response?


(a) R-red, r-cream, A-color, a-albino;
9 R_ A_ red, 3 rr A_ cream, 4 __ aa white
(b) 1/4 red, 1/4 cream, 1/2 white
(c) all offspring would be white because all would be __ aa

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