Biology: Life on Earth
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Author: Gerald Audesirk, Teresa Audesirk, Bruce E. Byers
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Chapter 10, Problem 1GP
In certain cattle, hair color can be red (homozygous R1R1), white (homozygous R2R2), or roan (a mixture of red and white hairs, heterozygous R1R2).
a. When a red bull is mated to a white cow, what genotypes and
b. If one of the offspring bulls in part (a) were mated to a white cow, what genotypes and phenotypes of offspring could be produced? In what proportion?
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Biology: Life on Earth
Ch. 10 - Fill-in-the-Blank The physical position of a gene...Ch. 10 - Define nondisjunction, and describe common...Ch. 10 - In certain cattle, hair color can be red...Ch. 10 - Prob. 2GPCh. 10 - In the edible pea, tall (T) is dominant to short...Ch. 10 - In tomatoes, round fruit (R) is dominant to long...Ch. 10 - In the tomatoes of Problem 4, an F1 offspring...Ch. 10 - Prob. 6GPCh. 10 - In humans, one of the genes determining color...Ch. 10 - In the couple described in Problem 7, the woman...
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