AP Biology: Unit 5- Heredity Question BankMULTIPLE CHOICE1.A blue-flowered African violet of unknown ancestry self-pollinated and produced 50 seeds. Theseseeds germinate and grow into flowering plants. Of these plants, 36 produce blue flowers and 14produce pink flowers. What is the best explanation for the pink-flowered offspring?a.Blue flowers are incompletely dominantto pink flowers.c.Pink flower color is the result of somaticmutations in the flower color gene.b.Pink flower color is a trait recessive toblue flower color.d.A previous generation of theblue-flowered parent must have included50 percent pinkflowered plants.ANS: BPTS: 1DIF:84%REF: 2018 #3TOP: Types of Inheritence and Dominance
