A student crosses a pure-breeding line of red-flowered poinsettias with a pure-breeding line of white-flowered poinsettias. The student observes that all the plants in the F1 generation have pink flowers. The student then crosses the F1 plants with one another and records 64 red-flowered plants, 107 pink-flowered plants and 53 white-flowered plants. What is the inheritance pattern for flower color in these poinsettias

The correct answer is - incomplete dominance.

Explanation:

The incomplete dominance is the pattern of inheritance where the recessive allele is not completely masked by the dominant allele in the heterozygous condition and makes a mixed or blend expression of both dominant and recessive traits.

In the given question, the pattern for the flower color is incomplete dominance as in the cross between the red and white flower poinsettias produce pink instead of red in F1 generation where the condition is heterozygous. The phenotypic ratio of in F2 generation in this type of inheritance is 1:2:1 which is approximately similar in this case 64:107:53.