A cross is performed between one nettle that is known to be heterozygous for both traits and a nettle that is pink and ruffled. Which of the following would lead researchers to believe the traits are linked?

(A) Several white flowers are identified with ruffled petals.
(B) Nearly all white flowers also have slotted petals and nearly all pink flowers have ruffled petals.
(C) Petals are discovered that are both ruffled and slotted.
(D) Flowers are discovered that have two colors of flowers and two shapes of petals.

A nettle has been discovered, native to a nation, that produces tiny flowers that come in two colors: white and pink. The petals of the flowers come in two varieties: ruffled or slotted. After years of studying them, it has been widely acknowledged that both traits follow classic Mendelian inheritance patterns of dominance. The table below shows floral phenotypes in a small garden in an isolated greenhouse, where the dominant phenotypes are the most plentiful and researchers assume the population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.

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Phenotype White Pink Ruffled Slotted # 4900 400 700 4600