You’re an orchid breeder and have noticed that you have a few plants that display a totally novel golden coloring pattern. This gold coloring has basically made you a LEGEND in your horticulture club, and now your best friend wants to use your sweet orchids in their wedding. Obviously, getting a purebred line would be ideal for cranking up production... because your pal is going to need A LOT of flowers. But this is proving to be a challenge; every time two golden orchids are crossed, you end up with a fair number of gold flowers, but still a significant number of orchids featuring the standard white coloration. In your most gold orchid self cross, you ended up with 57 gold and 27 standard orchids. All other such matings gave similar phenotypic offspring ratios. What’s going on here?