Question

Mendel performed reciprocal crosses in which he used pollen from a white-flowered plant to fertilize a purple-flowered plant and pollen from a purple-flowered plant to fertilize a white-flowered plant. What did these reciprocal crosses demonstrate?.

Answer 1

Mendel's reciprocal crosses demonstrated that the inheritance of a particular trait, such as flower color, is not dependent on whether the trait is present in the male or female parent. In other words, in Mendel's experiment, the offspring had the same traits regardless of whether the white-flowered plant or the purple-flowered plant was used as the male or female parent, indicating that the trait was not sex-linked.