You have two true-breeding plants, one with blue flowers and one with red flowers. You cross these plants and then cross two of the resulting F1 plants. The resulting F2 generation contains the following offspring: 248 red-flowered offspring, 255 blue-flowered offspring, and 497 offspring have purple flowers. Which of the following patterns of inheritance best explains the results you observed?  a. The red pigment allele is dominant over the blue pigment allele. b. The blue and red pigment alleles exhibit incomplete dominance. c. The purple pigment allele is dominant over both blue and red alleles. d. Blue pigment production is

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You have two true-breeding plants, one with blue flowers and one with red flowers. You cross these plants and then cross two of the resulting F1 plants. The resulting F2 generation contains the following offspring: 248 red-flowered offspring, 255 blue-flowered offspring, and 497 offspring have purple flowers. Which of the following patterns of inheritance best explains the results you observed? 

a. The red pigment allele is dominant over the blue pigment allele.
b. The blue and red pigment alleles exhibit incomplete dominance.
c. The purple pigment allele is dominant over both blue and red alleles.
d. Blue pigment production is controlled a temperature sensitive allele.
e. The red pigment is codominant with the blue pigment.
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