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Fruit colour in squash is an example of:

  1. A
    Recessive epistasis
  2. B
    Dominant epistasis
  3. C
    Complementary genes
  4. D
    Inhibitory genes

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Fruit color in summer squash (Cucurbita pepo) follows dominant epistasis, where a dominant allele at one locus (W) masks the expression of alleles at a different locus (Y), resulting in a phenotypic ratio.

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Fruit colour in squash is an example of:
A
Recessive epistasis
B
Dominant epistasis
C
Complementary genes
D
Inhibitory genes

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