Holstein dairy cows normally have black-and-white coats. Sometimes, calves with a recessive red-and-white coat are born. A dairy farmer bought a prize-winning black-and-white Holstein bull (male) and mated it to one of his black-and-white cows. To his dismay, the cow produced a red-and-white calf (baby).  a)Provide correct notation for the dominant and recessive alleles? b)What is the genotype of the bull?  c) What would the phenotyples of the offspring be if the above bull was mated to a red-and-white cow?

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Inheritance and Mendelian Genetics

Inheritance means the passing of traits to offspring from parents. These traits could be passed either through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction. The offspring receives the genetic material from the parents. Mendelian inheritance is a certain biological inheritance that follows the rules and principles laid down by Gregor Mendel in 1865. The initial hypothesis was considered wrong, but other inheritance theories modified the concept of inheritance and thus genetics.