The inheritance of flower colour in the dog flower is an example of A. co-dominance B. Incomplete dominance C. Multiple allelism D. Mendeliam disorder

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Muskan Anand

2 years ago

Option B In the dog flower Antirrhinum there are two types of flower color in pure state: red and white. When the two types of plants are crossed, the hybrid or plants of generation have pink flowers. This is due to a phenomenon called the incomplete dominance in which one allele for a specific trait is not completely expressed over its paired allele. This results in a third phenotype in which the expressed physical trait is a combination of the phenotypes of both alleles ( in this case the red and white color and incompletely dominant and hence the third color pink is observed when they mix).

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