A group of students are studying flower color inheritance in the garden pea plant (Pisum sativum). They obtain a purple-flowered pea plant of unknown ancestry, allow it to self-pollinate, and collect 606060 of its seeds. After planting the seeds, they observe the growth of 424242 purple-flowered plants and 181818 white-flowered plants. Which of the following best explains the flower colors seen in the offspring?

Option C

Explanation:

The plants are the producers that starts any food chain or food web.

Then comes consumers that feed on producers for their energy needs. The primary producers are generally herbivores.

The secondary consumers feed on the primary consumers for their food. They are carnivores and feed on smaller animals for their energy.

Decomposers are the organism that feed on the dead and decaying organic matter to clean the environment and recycle the nutrients back into the soil.

             Plants → Squirrel → Snake → Mushrooms

Hence, option C is correct.