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In a certain variety of plants, a cross between a red-flowered plant and a white-flowered plant produced an all-red flower F 1. In the F 2 there were 140 red-flowered plants, 50 cream-flowered plants, and 65 white-flowered plants.
(a) Offer an explanation for this F 2 ratio.
(b) What ratio would be produced in a testcross of the F 1 hybrid?
(c) What ratio would be produced if all the white-flowered F 2 plants were crossed among themselves?

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(a) R -red, r -cream, A -color...

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