Graduate student Robin Hopkins tends to her plants in the Biology greenhouse. The species is Phlox drummondii, and is native to central Texas. She is studying a flower color polymorphism within the species and the array of plants are offspring from crosses between the different colors. She is using them to determine the genetic basis of the flower color difference.
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