Question

Mendel’s pea plants had either purple or white flowers. This means that the plants

Answer 1

The correct answer is C) two alleles for the gene.

Answer 2

The answer is the plants have two alleles of the gene.

A gene is a section of a chromosome that typically contains the code for a particular protein, in this case, for flower color. An allele is one of two or more alternative forms of a gene. In this example, there are two alternative forms of the gene for flower color. The presence of two alternative forms implies there must be two alleles of the gene.