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This passage describes one of the fruit-color traits in eggplants:
The rind, or skin, of an eggplant fruit is usually either purple or green. In green varieties, the color is created by chlorophyll in the rind cells. Plants that produce a high level of chlorophyll in the rind have green fruit. Some plants do not produce chlorophyll in the rind and have white fruit.
In a group of eggplants, some plants have green fruit, some have white fruit, and some have light-green fruit. Fruit color is dependent on chlorophyll production. In this group, the gene for chlorophyll production in the rind has two alleles. The allele for chlorophyll production that results in green fruit (CG) is incompletely dominant over the allele for no production that results in white fruit (CW). So heterozygotes have light-green fruit.
green eggplant fruit
"Green Brinja" by Miansari66, Wikimedia Commons / public domain
light-green eggplant fruit
"Small light-green eggplant" by Fructibus, Wikimedia Commons / public domain
white eggplant fruit
"Eggplant White" by Tahir mq, Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0
green fruit
light-green fruit
white fruit
Complete the Punnett square to show all possible genotypes of the offspring from a cross between two eggplants: one with light-green fruit and one with green fruit.
C
G
C
G
C
G
c
c
C
W
c
c
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