Imagine you have two pure-breeding lines of canaries,one with yellow feathers and the other with brownfeathers. In crosses between these two strains, yellowfemale × brown male gives only brown sons anddaughters, while brown female × yellow male givesonly brown sons and yellow daughters. Propose ahypothesis to explain these results

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Imagine you have two pure-breeding lines of canaries,
one with yellow feathers and the other with brown
feathers. In crosses between these two strains, yellow
female × brown male gives only brown sons and
daughters, while brown female × yellow male gives
only brown sons and yellow daughters. Propose a
hypothesis to explain these results

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