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A cross between a red flower bearing plant and a white flower bearing plant of Antirrhinum produced all plants having pink flowers. Work out a cross to explain how this is possible.

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This type of inheritance is called incomplete dominance as red colour allele (R) Is not completely dominant over recessive (r) allele. So partial expression of both alleles in a heterozygote results in a phenotype intermediate between those of two homozygotes , i.e, pink colour of flowers
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