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The Gene That Encodes for Plant Height in Sunflower Plants

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The gene that encodes for plant height in sunflower plants follows a strict recessive/dominant pattern of inheritance and has 2 alleles (tall and short).A tall sunflower plant is crossed with a short sunflower plant.Half of the offspring from this cross are tall, and the other half are short.From this information, what are the parents' genotypes?


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