Suppose you have two rose plants, both with pink flowers. You cross the two plan

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Suppose you have two rose plants, both with pink flowers. You cross the two plants and are surprised to find that, while about 50% of the offspring are pink, about 25% are red 25% are white. You decide that you like the red flowers and would like to make more. What colored roses would you cross to produce the reddest flowered plants possible and what percentage of the offspring would have red flowers? You are commissioned to produce thousands of pink flowers for an event on campus. What colored roses would you cross to produce the pinkest flowered plants possible and what percentage of the offspring would have pink flowers?

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a. I would like to cross red rose with red rose the we get the off spring as 50% red and 50% black

when we cross when we cross red with white rose we get off spring of 50% red 25% white and 25% pink

when we cross red with yellow rose we get offsring of 50% red 25% yellow and 25% orange

b. i would like to cross pink with pink we get 50% of off spring as pink

when we cross pink with white we get 50% offsring as pink

when we cross red with white we get offsring of 25% pink

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