According to a theory in​ genetics, if tall and colorful plants are crossed with short and colorless​ plants, four types of plants will​ result: tall and​ colorful, tall and​ colorless, short and​ colorful, and short and​ colorless, with corresponding probabilities of
five sixteenths
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four sixteenths
​,
one sixteenth
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and six sixteenths