Ncert Exercises & Solutions

Q. 5. A plant with red flowers was crossed with another plant with yellow flowers. If $F_{1}$ showed all flowers orange in color, explain the inheritance.

Incomplete dominance is the phenomenon where neither of the two alleles shows dominance thus producing an intermediate hybrid between the expression on two alleles in a homozygous state. In this case, a new phenotype in between the two original phenotypes appears.