A particularly rare aqua orchid species is obviously in high

A particularly rare aqua orchid species is obviously in high demand. As a budding botanist, you’ve decided to purchase an aqua orchid online that was promised to generate all aqua offspring when mated with other plants. You mate your newly acquired aqua plant with the boring white orchids that you have. But, sadly, about half of the plants produced by this aqua-white cross were white. Explain using symbols, how this could have happened.

Solution

If about half of the plants; produced by this aqua-white cross were white it can be concluded that it is a sex linked trait. With only one copy of the X-chromosome, all males are hemizygous for this gene. They have only two options: