Purple flower color is dominant over white flower color in peas. Suppose two white flowered pea plants are crossed and produce 1000 offspring. How many of those offspring would you expect to have white flowers?
1 Answer
Apr 13, 2018
There would be 1,000 white flowered offspring. If Purple is dominant, then white is recessive. In order to have a plant with recessive traits it must be homozygous recessive; therefore, the plants will be white.
