You Have Learned That Purple Flowers Are Dominant to White

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Essay

You have learned that purple flowers are dominant to white in Mendel's peas. When walking the grounds of Mendel's monastery, you come across a stray purple pea plant. You suspect that it is descended from Mendel's experimental plants, but you have no idea of its exact heritage. Propose two ways that you could determine the plant's genotype with respect to the flower color. Assume that you have any other pea plants that you might want to use in your analysis. Provide expected results and interpretations of possible results for your experiments. Which of the two ways would be easier and why?

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