Biology please helppppppp?

Question

1. you mate a red-flowered plant with a white-flowered plant. You expect them to be red, but half turn out white. EXPLAIN WHY.

2. Being an albino is a recessive trait in which no color is produced in the skin or eyes. Could an albino child be produceed by two normally-pigmented parents? Explain

Answer 1

1. The red gene is dominant and the white gene is recessive. The red plant is heterozygous, meaning it carries one gene for red and another for white, while the white plant is homozygous, carrying two white genes. The daughter plants that inherited the red gene from the red plant are red, while the daughter plants that inherited the white gene from the red plant are white.

2. Yes. If both parents carry the recessive gene, neither would be albino, but 1/4 of their children would be expected to be.