have large flowers that are either yellow or red. Plants grown in acidic soil (pH 6 or lower) have red flowers, and plants grown in soils with a pH of 7 or above have yellow flowers. You plant Firey seeds in your garden every year. Normally all of the plants in your garden have yellow flowers but one year you noticed a few plants with red flowers. You prefer the red colour so you set o
Fireys have large flowers that are either yellow or red. Plants grown in acidic soil (pH 6 or lower) have red flowers, and plants grown in soils with a pH of 7 or above have yellow flowers. You plant Firey seeds in your garden every year. Normally all of the plants in your garden have yellow flowers but one year you noticed a few plants with red flowers. You prefer the red colour so you set out to breed red flowered plants. You bred red flowered plants with each other and did not allow the yellow flowered plants to breed. You took the seeds produced (seeds are the offspring of your matings) and planted them the following year. You did this for several years (breeding only the red flowering plants to each other, and not letting the yellow flowered plants breed).
You've now been doing this selective breeding of red plants for a very long time. Would you expect to see a larger portion of the plants have red flowers now than what you started with (i.e., would you expect to have seen the proportion of red flowered plants in the population increase)? Why or why not?
Trending now
This is a popular solution!
Step by step
Solved in 2 steps
