You breed a plant that has purple flowers with a plant that has orange flowers and the resulting offspring has purple and orange stripe flowers. What type of heredity does flower color exhibit in these plants?

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Cara Huynh

29 May, 23:46

You breed a plant that has purple flowers with a plant that has orange flowers and the resulting offspring has purple and orange stripe flowers. What type of heredity does flower color exhibit in these plants?

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Adelaide Tucker · Answer 1

Incomplete dominance

Explanation:

Incomplete dominance is the expression of phenotype of two paired alleles (i. e dominant and recessive allele) all together.

Usually when two alleles get paired, the characteristics of the dominant allele is expressed while the characteristics associated with recessive alleles are expressed only when the two recessive allele get paired.

Here in this case the characteristics of both type of allele are expressed i. e. both orange and purple strips appear in the offspring. Hence, this case shows the incomplete dominance.