In a Mendelian cross, the
generation had both genotypic and phenotypic ratios of
. What type of genetic inheritance pattern does it represent?
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The inheritance of flower colour in the dog flower (snapdragon or Antirrhinum sp.) is a good example to understand incomplete dominance. In a cross between truebreeding red-flowered (RR) and true-breeding white- flowered plants
, the
was pink.
When the
was self-pollinated the
it resulted in the following ratio 1 (RR) Red: 2 (Rr) Pink: 1 (r) White. Here the genotype ratios were exactly as we would expect in any mendelian monohybrid cross, but the phenotype ratios had changed from the
dominant: recessive ratio.
What happened was that R was not completely dominant over r and this made it possible to distinguish
as pink from RR (red) and rr (white).
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