Purple flowers are dominant over white flowers. The parent generation includes two heterozygous parents.

Let P represent the dominant purple allele and p the recessive white allele. Two heterozygous parents are Pp × Pp, producing offspring genotypes PP, Pp, Pp, and pp. The first three have purple flowers, while only pp has white flowers, giving a 3 purple to 1 white ratio—choice A.

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