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In the four o'clock plant, a cross between a red-flowered plant and a white-flowered plant produces all pink-flowered offspring. This is an example of

Aincomplete dominance.CORRECT
Bcomplete dominance.
Csex linkage.
Dmultiple alleles.
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Why the answer is A, and why the others tempt you.
Neither allele masks the other, so the heterozygote shows an intermediate phenotype. If red were completely dominant all the offspring would be red. Crossing two pink plants gives red, pink and white in the ratio 1 : 2 : 1.
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