In a Certain Species of Plant, Flowers Occur in Three

question 48

Multiple Choice

In a certain species of plant, flowers occur in three colors: blue, pink, and white. A pure-breeding pink plant is mated with a pure-breeding white plant. All of the F₁ are blue. When the blue F₁ plants are selfed, the F₂ plants occur in the ratio 9 blue : 3 pink : 4 white.

-What is the name for this type of interaction?

• A) recessive epistasis
• B) dominant epistasis
• C) duplicate recessive epistasis
• D) duplicate dominant epistasis
• E) dominant and recessive epistasis

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