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when mendel crossed purebred purple flowering plants (pp) with purebred…

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when mendel crossed purebred purple flowering plants (pp) with purebred white flowering plants (pp), what were the flower colors of the resulting offspring? 25 percent white and 75 percent purple 50 percent white and 50 percent purple 100 percent purple 100 percent white

Explanation:

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In Mendelian genetics, when a pure - bred dominant (PP) is crossed with a pure - bred recessive (pp), all offspring will have the genotype Pp. Since the purple allele (P) is dominant over the white allele (p), all offspring will show the dominant trait, which is purple flower color.

Answer:

C. 100 percent purple