Individuals of a particular species of flowering plant that lives only one year can produce red, white, or pink flowers depending on their genotype. Assume offspring have the same color as their parents. One year a certain population had 300 red-flowering plants, 500 white-flowering plants, and 800 pink-flowering plants. When the same population is censused the following year, the offspring present consist of 600 red-flowering, 900 white-flowering and 1000 pink-flowering plants. Which color provided the highest relative fitness?
a) red
b) white
c) pink
d) all are equal

Take the number after and subtract it from before so for red its is 600-300=300, then for white, 900-500=400 and for pink its is 1000-800=200. The population with the greatest diffrence is the one who had the highest relatice fitness.

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PratikshaS PratikshaS · Answer 2 · 2022-05-26T14:26:21+02:00

The white flower would have a highest relative fitness.

What do you mean by relative fitness?

"It is a measure of biological fitness wherein the reproductive rate (of a genotype or a phenotype) is relative to the maximum reproductive rate (of other genotypes or phenotypes) in a given population."
It is calculated by dividing each genotype's survival by the highest survival.

If certain population had 300 red-flowering plants(RR), 500 white-flowering plants(rr), and 800 pink-flowering plants(Rr). Then its relative fitness would be,

For RR= 300/800=0.37

For Rr= 800/800= 1

For rr= 500/800=0.62

When the same population is censused the following year, the offspring present consist of 600 red-flowering, 900 white-flowering and 1000 pink-flowering plants. Then their relative fitness is-

For RR=600/1000=0.6

For Rr=1000/1000= 1

For rr=900/1000= 0.9

The population of white flowering plants increases more by 0.28.

Hence, the answer is b. White.

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