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In a population of flowers, red is dominant to white. A true-breeding white flower is crossed with a heterozygous flower, and the observed values were 63 white flowers, 37 red flowers. To determine the chi square value, _____________ degrees of freedom should be used :1234

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In a population of flowers, red is dominant to white. A true-breeding white flower is crossed with a heterozygous flower, and the observed values were 63 white flowers, 37 red flowers. To determine the chi square value, _____________ degrees of freedom should be used :1234

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In a chi-square test, the degrees of freedom are calculated as the number of possible outcomes minus 1. In this case, there are two possible outcomes (red flowers and white flowers), so the degrees of freedom would be 2-1 = 1.

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