Question

A botanist studying the inheritance of flower color found that when she crossed the offspring of two pure-breeding flower lines, one purple and one white, she got the following F2 generation from planting 60 seeds: 17 plants with purple flowers, 26 plants with lavender flowers, and 15 plants with white flowers.

Answer 1

This is known as incomplete dominance

Step-by-step explanation:

The phenotype of a heterozygous organism can actually be a combination between the phenotypes of its homozygous parents.The heterozygous offspring and the incomplete dominance of the purple trait are a phenotypic intermediate between the parents