Flower colour in Antirrhinum sp. is an example of:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Incomplete dominance
Option (1) Mendel's dominance — Incorrect. In Mendel’s dominance the F1 looks like one parent.
Option (2) Co-dominance — Incorrect. In co-dominance the F1 resembles both parents, as in the ABO blood groups where IA and IB both show. In snapdragon the F1 is pink, in between red and white, so it is not co-dominance.
Option (3) Incomplete dominance — Correct. In Antirrhinum (snapdragon), a cross between red and white flowers gives pink F1 flowers. Neither colour is fully dominant, so the heterozygote is in between; this is incomplete dominance.
Option (4) Multiple allelism — Incorrect. Multiple alleles are three or more forms of a gene, as in the ABO blood groups.
NCERT Extract:
Incomplete Dominance – “… In a cross between true-breeding red-flowered (RR) and truebreeding white-flowered plants (rr), the F1 (Rr) was pink (Figure 4.6). When the F1 was self-pollinated the F2 resulted in the following ratio 1 (RR) Red : 2 (Rr) Pink : 1 (rr) White.”
