Red Coloration in Wheat Seeds Is a Complex Trait Influenced

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True/False

Red coloration in wheat seeds is a complex trait influenced by three unlinked genes, each with two different alleles A and a; B and b; C and c. This Punnett square shows the results of a mating between two plants that are both heterozygous at all three loci. The gene products from the dominant genes are additive in their influence on the red coloration.

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