Saturday, July 25, 2009

If brown hair is dominant over blonde hair, cross a heterozygous brown haired father with a homozygo

If brown hair is dominant over blonde hair, cross a heterozygous brown haired father with a homozygous blonde mother. Summarize the genotype and phenotype of their 4 children.



If brown hair is dominant over blonde hair, cross a heterozygous brown haired father with a homozygous blonde?

"If brown hair is dominant over blonde hair, cross a heterozygous brown haired father with a homozygous blonde mother."



Heterozygous brown father = Bb



Homozygous blonde mother = bb



Bb x bb



__B___b



b_Bb_bb



b_Bb_bb



"Summarize the genotype and phenotype of their 4 children."



2 heterozygous brown, 2 homozygous blonde



If brown hair is dominant over blonde hair, cross a heterozygous brown haired father with a homozygous blonde?

There are only 2 possible progeny. If W= brown and b= blonde, then you have Bb x bb. The child could be Bb or bb. Thus, there is a 50% chance of a brown haired child (Bb) and 50% chance of blonde haired child.



All this assumes that human haircolor follows mendelian genetics.



If brown hair is dominant over blonde hair, cross a heterozygous brown haired father with a homozygous blonde?

The genotype can mix as follows:



brown/blond, blond/blond.



brown/blond, blond/blond



The phenotype will be 50% chance of brown-haired children, 50% chance of blond-haired children.



If brown hair is dominant over blonde hair, cross a heterozygous brown haired father with a homozygous blonde?

B=brown, b=Blondie



Bbxbb= Bb, bb, bb, Bb



the genotypic ratio would be 1:1 (1 Bb to each bb)



the phenotypic ratio would also be 1:1 (1 brunette to each Blondie)



If brown hair is dominant over blonde hair, cross a heterozygous brown haired father with a homozygous blonde?

If the allele for brown hair is "B" and that of blonde is "b", then the ratios will be:



25% of their children will be heterozygous brown haired and 75% of their children will be homozygous blonde, hence the ratios are 3:1.

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