Imagine that smurfs live in widely separated groups and rarely interbreed, so geneticists know very little about them. On one occasion, two smurfs from different groups did mate. A big-footed, white smurf mated with a small-footed, blue smurf. Three offspring resulted: one big-footed and blue and two small-footed and blue. Which statement about the inheritance of color in smurfs is most likely to be correct?

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Blue is dominant to white because the big-footed, white smurf mated with a small-footed, blue smurf and one of the offspring was big-footed and blue. This indicates that the blue allele is dominant to the white allele.

Imagine That Smurfs Live in Widely Separated Groups and Rarely