A flower farmer purchased one million dollars worth of seeds from Class E Seed Company and was told these seeds (F2 generation) would produce perfectly pure
purple plumes of plump plum flowers because the plants that produced the seeds
(F1 generation) were themselves purple and from a large 100% genetically uniform
generation. After planting the seeds, the farmer found twenty five percent of the
flowers were white, not purple. How can this be? The farmer thinks the grandparent
flower plants (P generation) are to blame. Do they have a case to settle with Class E
Seed Company? See if you can figure out the genotypes of the grandparent plants to
complete your analysis. Assume purple flower color is dominant, white flower color is
recessive, and that the current generation of flowers is the