A woman buys a packet of seeds for red flowering plants. In the spring, she plants the seeds in her garden and enjoys beautiful red flowers all summer. The flowers are self-pollinating, and many of the flowers produce seeds. The woman collects these seeds and plants them in her garden the following spring. She is surprised when about one-fourth of these plants produce white flowers while the other three-fourths produce red flowers. Assuming that the seeds were all produced by self-pollination of the parental generation, which statement best explains the reason for the woman’s observations?

B. Some of the seeds were exposed to conditions that caused a change in the plant’s genes, leading to the production of white flowers instead of red flowers in plants grown from these seeds.

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HeyMaggie HeyMaggie · Answer 2 · 2022-03-03T03:03:48+01:00

Answer:

It should be C -

Both the white and red flower traits were present in the parental generation, but only the red trait was expressed in this generation, while both traits were expressed in the next generation.

Explanation:

The reason is just like human. As an example, a family of, let's say Africa, and all of them are dark skin, then one married to a, let's say Europe, and that person is light skin. Which the offspring became a pretty dark skin. Then as the offspring grow up and have family of their own, the trait of light skin is always in the family, although it is recessive. So randomly, that light skin gene will pop-up in the generation, probably just not in this one.

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