In Drosophila, red eyes is a wild-type phenotype.  Several different genes affect eye color.  One allele causes purple eyes, and a different allele causes sepia eyes.  Both of these are recessive to red eye color.  When flies with purple eyes were crossed to flies with sepia eyes, all F1 flies had red eyes.  When the F1 offspring were allowed to mate, the F2 flies were as follows: 162 purple eyes 172 sepia eyes 58 purplish sepia eyes 478 red eyes   Explain this pattern of inheritance.  Use a chi square test to test the goodness of fit of your hypothesis with the data

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Inheritance and Mendelian Genetics

Inheritance means the passing of traits to offspring from parents. These traits could be passed either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction. The offspring receives the genetic material from the parents. Mendelian inheritance is a certain biological inheritance that follows the rules and principles laid down by Gregor Mendel in 1865. The initial hypothesis was considered wrong, but other inheritance theories modified the concept of inheritance and thus genetics.