When Crossing a True-Breeding Red Snapdragon Flower with a True-Breeding

question 28

Multiple Choice

When crossing a true-breeding red snapdragon flower with a true-breeding white flower of the same species,we secure all pink offspring.This would seem to support the pre-Mendel view that inheritance is a blending of parental traits.However,Mendel and conventional wisdom agree that "blending" of parental traits is not correct and that particles of inheritance are actually involved because

• A)in the case of incomplete dominance,only radioactive isotope tracers can follow the actual hereditary particles
• B)under blending theory,over many generations only the average (or pink flowers)would remain; there would be no way to get back to pure red and white
• C)it is possible to cross the pink F-1 generation and secure a predictable proportion of pure red and white flowers again,which is not accounted for under the blending theory
• D)there is no way to directly prove incomplete dominance is not a case of blending,but we can be sure of genes because of the other cases of dominance,etc.,where genes are the only logical explanation.
• E)two of the above are true

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