Which Trait white flowers or purple flowers is controlled by a dominant allele? Which is controlled by a recessive allele? How do you know?

if I get you right. How do I know

it's controlled by either of the two. White flowers are controlled by a dominant allele. Purple flowers are controlled by a recessive allele. Dominant

alleles are represented by capital letters, and recessive alleles are represented by the lowercase versions of the same

letters.

the diploid number of chromosomes is sometimes represented by the symbol 2n. for the fruit fly, the diploid number is 8, which can be written as 2n = 8, where n represents twice the number of chromosomes in a sperm or egg cell.