NEETZoologyPrinciples of Inheritance and Variation
What does the incomplete dominance in snapdragons allow us to distinguish?
Options
- ARed from white flowers
- BRr as pink from RR (red) and rr (white)
- CDominant from recessive alleles
- DDifferent species of snapdragons
Correct answer
B. Rr as pink from RR (red) and rr (white)
Step-by-step solution
When experiments on peas were repeated using other traits in other plants, it was found that sometimes the F1 had a phenotype that did not resemble either of the two parents and was in between the two. The inheritance of flower colour in the dog flower (snapdragon or Antirrhinum sp.) is a good example to understand incomplete dominance. In a cross between true-breeding red-flowered (RR) and truebreeding white-flowered plants (rr), the F1 (Rr) was pink (Figure 4.6). When the F1 was self-pollinated the F2 resulted in