You Have Obtained an Interesting Flower for Your Garden from Your

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You have obtained an interesting flower for your garden from your neighbour.The neighbour has given you two pure lines of the plant,one with red flowers and one with yellow flowers.You decide to cross them and find that you obtain all orange flowers.The curious molecular geneticist in you decides to test two independent hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: Incomplete dominance;Hypothesis 2: Recessive epistasis.The first step in your test is to self the F₁ orange plants,which you complete only to find that the results do not statistically distinguish the two hypotheses.a)What ratio of yellow,orange,and red would you expect in the F₂ population for each hypothesis and b)what crosses would you complete next to definitively test your two hypotheses?

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Definitions:

Descriptive Research

A research method aimed at describing characteristics of the population or phenomenon being studied without influencing the outcomes.

Qualitative Research

A research method focusing on understanding concepts, thoughts, or experiences through detailed descriptions and analysis of non-numerical data.

Population

The entire group of individuals or units considered for a study, from which a sample may be drawn for analysis.

Correlational Research

A type of non-experimental research method that explores the relationship between two or more variables without asserting a cause-and-effect connection.