After self pollination of red flowered plants out of 40 plants of progeny were white flowered. this indicates that the plants are__________________?

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Heterozygous. Self-pollination of red-flowered plants producing white-flowered progeny indicates that the parent plants carried a recessive allele for white flowers. This segregation pattern (3:1 ratio typically) confirms the parents were heterozygous (Rr), as homozygous dominant (RR) would produce only red offspring.