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This Problem Deals with Eye Color, an Inherited Trait Find the Probability That These Parents Give Birth to a Purposes

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This problem deals with eye color, an inherited trait. For purposes of this problem, assume that only two eyecolors are possible, brown and blue. We use b to represent a blue eye gene and B a brown eye gene. If any Bgenes are present, the person will have brown eyes. The table shows the four possibilities for the children oftwo Bb (brown-eyed) parents, where each parent has one of each eye color gene.  Second Parent BbBBBBb First Parent bBbbb\begin{array}{cc|cc} &&\text { Second Parent } \\& & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{b} \\\hline & \mathrm{B} & \mathrm{BB} & \mathrm{Bb} \\ \text { First Parent } \\& \mathrm{b} & \mathrm{Bb} & \mathrm{bb}\end{array}

Find the probability that these parents give birth to a child who has blue eyes.


A) 14\frac { 1 } { 4 }
B) 12\frac { 1 } { 2 }
C) 1
D) 0

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