Biology 10th Edition by Eldra Solomon,Charles Martin,Diana Martin,Linda Berg

Exercise 8

The long hair of Persian cats is recessive to the short hair of Siamese cats, but the black coat color of Persians is dominant to the brown-and-tan coat color of Siamese. Make up appropriate symbols for the alleles of these two unlinked loci. If a pure black, long-haired Persian is mated to a pure brown-and-tan, short-haired Siamese, what will be the appearance of the F 1 off spring? If two of these F 1 cats are mated, what is the chance that a long-haired, brown-and-tan cat will be produced in the F 2 generation? (Use the shortcut probability method to obtain your answer; then, check it with a Punnett square.)