2. A nursery worker transfers pollen from a red four o'clock flower to a white four o clock flower.

The resulting seeds produce plants with pink flowers. What can you infer about the inheritance of

flower color in four o'clock plants? What would you expect to happen if you crossed one of the pink

flowers with a red four o'clock flower? Why?

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Amiyah Pearson

6 October, 18:33

2. A nursery worker transfers pollen from a red four o'clock flower to a white four o clock flower.

The resulting seeds produce plants with pink flowers. What can you infer about the inheritance of

flower color in four o'clock plants? What would you expect to happen if you crossed one of the pink

flowers with a red four o'clock flower? Why?

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Adelaide Mitchell · Answer 1

A nursery worker transfers pollen from a red four o'clock flower to a white four o clock flower. The resulting seeds produce plants with pink flowers. What can you infer about the inheritance of flower color in four o'clock plants?

It could inferred that mutation occur which led to sudden change and gives rise to pink flowers instead of either red or white

What would you expect to happen if you crossed one of the pink

flowers with a red four o'clock flower?

When red flower is crossed with the pink flower, the one with dominant gene will be more than the other as a result of dominance gene it posses

Why?