Mice come in 2 colors black(t) and tan (T). Tan is dominant.
1. Create a punnet square between 2 heterozygotic tan mice.
2.Out of these offspring what percent would be homozygous recessive? Their phenotype would be?
3. If 1 of the mice parent was TT could that result in a recessive? Explain.
Answer-
allele fot tan = T
Allele for black = t.
Heterozygous means two dissimilar alleles in a gene , so that means one recessive and one dominant allele pair .
So here Heterozygous will be Tt
Parents- Tt x Tt
F1-
T | t | |
T | TT | Tt |
t | Tt | tt |
25% = homozygous recessive tt.
3 . If one one of the mouse parents was TT , all the offsprings would be tan and be either TT or Tt , as offsprings receive one allele in a gene from father and one from mother. Since one parent will only have T allele to pass on ,no mice can be black or recessive .
Parents - TT x Tt
F1-
T | t | |
T | TT | Tt |
T | TT | Tt |
All offsprings will be tan and TT / Tt .
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