The image shows a white sweet pea that is labeled with its two alleles for petal color. mc020-1.jpg what can you surmise from the labeled image? a)the genotype is heterozygous. b)white petal color is a recessive trait. c)white petal color is a dominant trait. d)the phenotype is heterozygous.

The right answer is White petal color is a recessive trait.

A recessive trait is a peculiarity transmitted by a gene and occurs only in cases where this gene is present on both chromosomes of the pair.

In other words, it is a character or an allele that is expressed only in the homozygous state, that is when it is present in two copies in the genome.

Recessive trait as opposed to dominant.