Question

Life Science!!
@hectoroftroy

Answer 1

Your alien friend from planet Xenon is visiting and wants to learn how to breed pea plants. You show your friend a recent batch of pea plants with purple flowers that you grew by crossing plants that had purple flowers with plants that had white flowers. Your alien friend is confused as to why your plants all have purple flowers. How would you explain, in the simplest way possible, what happened?

Answer 2

You have a trait (plant color) and you have two possible outcomes for it (purple and white). You know that some alleles for white were present in one of the parent plants, so you know they must be present in the offspring too. But they're expression is covered up by the purple alleles from the other plant, so you know that purple is dominant to white.

Answer 3

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!!! I don't know what I would do without you. I have a few more questions, but you said you have to go, so I will find someone else to help me.

Have a great rest of the day,
~Miss.Rose

Answer 4

Take care, glad to be helpful.

Answer 5

Wonderful! :)

Answer 6

What's wonderful?

Answer 7

Explanation. :)

Answer 8

Actually, I am not the only one whom has made a mistake. Your ‘tutor’ is wrong with part II.

It said the ratio to hertorogous and homogous alleles right?

It wouldn’t be ‘2:4’ It would be 2:2. Because what? 4 is both hertogous and homogous alleles added or COMBINED. It didn’t say homogous alleles ratioed to all of the alleles combined did it? No, to each other, separately.

(Sorry, about the typoes).

But yes, the first question in part II was wrong..

Answer 9

So, everyone does mistakes. However, the example was to show you how to input the factors in each square, :)

Answer 10

@MissSmartiez Can you help me with a few more questions?

Answer 11

Though I agree with him in this case. Good job!

Answer 12

Sure thing.