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Biology: Concepts and Investigations 2nd Edition by Mariëlle Hoefnagels

Edition 2ISBN: 978-0077295349
book Biology: Concepts and Investigations 2nd Edition by Mariëlle Hoefnagels cover

Biology: Concepts and Investigations 2nd Edition by Mariëlle Hoefnagels

Edition 2ISBN: 978-0077295349
Exercise 68
A man and a woman each have dark eyes, dark hair, and freckles. The genes for these traits are on separate chromosomes. The woman is heterozygous for each of these genes, but the man is homozygous. The dominance relationships of the alleles are as follows:
B = dark eyes; b = blue eyes
H = dark hair; h = blond hair
F = freckles; f = no freckles
a. What is the probability that their child will share the parents' phenotype?
b. What is the probability that the child will share the same genotype as the mother? As the father?
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