In Summer Squash, Spherical-Shaped Fruit Has Been Shown to Be

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Short Answer

In summer squash, spherical-shaped fruit has been shown to be dominant to elongated fruit. On one occasion, two different spherical varieties were crossed and produced all disk-shaped fruits. When these hybrid disk-shaped fruits were crossed, they produced 75 disk-shaped fruits, 48 spherical fruits, and 9 elongated fruits. Explain.

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