In a flower garden, the gardener has purple and white pansies. He notices that a new pansy has sprouted. When it finally flowers, the pansy is lavender. Explain how this happened.

It is expected that one of the offspings might be lavender as lavender is also a type of violet color, only lighter because of the white color parent. Offsprings have genes that are obtained from the mother and father gametes which hybrid sometimes to form separate genes.