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Explain the phenomenon of Incomplete dominance with the help of example.

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Ans. Incomplete Dominance
Incomplete dominance is the situation where, in heterozygous genotypes, both the alleles express as a blend (mixture) and neither allele is dominant over the other. As a result of this blending, an intermediate phenotype is expressed. Following is the familiar example of incomplete dominance: Figure 1510
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In Four O' clock plant, the trait of flower colour is controlled by two alleles (let us say them R and r). The true breeding plants RR and rr have red and white flowers, respectively. When a homozygous red flowered plant (RR) is crossed with homozygous white flowered plant (rr), the heterozygous (Rr) plants of F1 generation produce pink flowers (pink is a blend of red and white colours). This result clearly indicates that neither of the red flower allele (R) and white flower i allele (r) is dominant. However, when two heterozygous plants with' pink flowers (Rr) are crossed, F2 generation shows phenotypes of red, pink and white flowers in the ratio 1:2:1.

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