An ecologist observes that a population of plants in a meadow has flowers that may be red, yellow, white, pink, or purple. hypothesize what the inheritance pattern might be.

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Saul Cuevas

3 July, 03:36

An ecologist observes that a population of plants in a meadow has flowers that may be red, yellow, white, pink, or purple. hypothesize what the inheritance pattern might be.

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Frankie Hines · Answer 1

The possible inheritance pattern might be that the colors are governed by just one gene with multiple alleles. There could be simple dominance and incomplete dominance factors as well given the 5 flower color characteristics.