proportions: Long Sphere Disk long 32 sphere 178 disk 270

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A pure-breeding strain of squash that produced diskshaped fruits (see the accompanying illustration) was
crossed with a pure-breeding strain having long fruits.
The F1 had disk fruits, but the F2 showed a new phenotype, sphere, and was composed of the following
proportions:
Long
long 32 sphere 178 disk 270
Sphere Disk
Propose an explanation for these results, and show
the genotypes of the P, F1, and F2 generations.

proportions:
Long
Sphere
Disk
long 32
sphere 178
disk 270
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