In the wild, the plant Knoxiensus prairieii displays a dimorphic trait for fruit color. The plants will bear either purple or yellow fruits. You find and collect several wild plants from around campus and decide to perform some experiments to determine the relationship between the purple and yellow gene traits. You either perform self-crosses (selfing) or you carefully perform cross-pollination experiments between two plants and obtain the following results:
Pollination Purple Progeny Yellow Progeny
Purple (self) 87 0
Purple (self) 76 24
Yellow (self) 0 95
Purple x Yellow 98 0
Purple x Yellow 52 56
Purple x Yellow 85 0
Purple x Purple 91 0
Required:
From these results, explain the mode of inheritance for the fruit color phenotype.
