One strain of periwinkleplants has green leaves and another strain has white leaves. Bothstrains are true-breeding. You do not know if the phenotypicdifference is due to alleles of a nuclear gene or an organellar gene.The two strains were analyzed using reciprocal crosses, and thefollowing results were obtained:A plant with green leaves is pollinated by a plant with whiteleaves: all offspring have green leaves.A plant with white leaves is pollinated by a plant with greenleaves: all offspring have white leaves. Is this pattern of inheritance consistent with simple Mendelianinheritance, where green is dominant to white, and/or is it consistentwith maternal inheritance?

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One strain of periwinkle
plants has green leaves and another strain has white leaves. Both
strains are true-breeding. You do not know if the phenotypic
difference is due to alleles of a nuclear gene or an organellar gene.
The two strains were analyzed using reciprocal crosses, and the
following results were obtained:
A plant with green leaves is pollinated by a plant with white
leaves: all offspring have green leaves.
A plant with white leaves is pollinated by a plant with green
leaves: all offspring have white leaves.
Is this pattern of inheritance consistent with simple Mendelian
inheritance, where green is dominant to white, and/or is it consistent
with maternal inheritance?

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