. In a particular kind of ornamental flower, the wildtype flower color is deep purple, and the plants aretrue-breeding. In one true-breeding mutant stock, theflowers have a reduced pigmentation, resulting in alavender color. In a different true-breeding mutantstock, the flowers have no pigmentation and are thuswhite. When a lavender-flowered plant from the firstmutant stock was crossed to a white-flowered plantfrom the second mutant stock, all the F1 plants hadpurple flowers. The F1 plants were then allowed toself-fertilize to produce an F2 generation. The 277 F2plants were 157 purple : 71 white : 49 lavender. a. Explain how flower color is inherited. Is this traitcontrolled by the alleles of a single gene?b. What kinds of progeny would be produced if lavender F2 plants were allowed to self-fertilize?

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Inheritance and Mendelian Genetics

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