You do an experiment with the genetics of plant flower color. You cross a red flowered plant with a yellow flowered plant. The F1 progeny from the hundreds of seeds produced include plants that had red flowers and others with yellow flowers but there are also many plants whose flowers were a wide variety of shades of orange in-between the two extremes (that is not just one color halfway between the parents). What kind of non-Mendelian inheritance can lead to this type of result? Explain.

You do an experiment with the genetics of plant flower color. You cross a red flowered plant with a yellow flowered plant. The F1 progeny from the hundreds of seeds produced include plants that had red flowers and others with yellow flowers but there are also many plants whose flowers were a wide variety of shades of orange in-between the two extremes (that is not just one color halfway between the parents). What kind of non-Mendelian inheritance can lead to this type of result? Explain.

Human Anatomy & Physiology (11th Edition)

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Author:Elaine N. Marieb, Katja N. Hoehn

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Chapter1: The Human Body: An Orientation

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