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In certain plants, red flowers are dominant to white flowers. if a heterozygous plant is crossed with a homozygous red-flowered plant, what is the probability that the offspring will be white-flowered?

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Hi I will help

so vocabulary.
Heterozygous- 2 different allies of a gene
Homozygous- same allies of a gene
Dominant- only one parent

so let's solve- it got 0%
R R
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| | R
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| | r
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so just solve


Answer; 0% even though some red flowers will have the white gene


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1/4. Normal you make a chart and the chart is out of four of them. If the homogenous one had 2 (y)s and then the Heterogenous had 1 (y) and 1(x) then the probability is 1 to 4
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