In Find the genotype of the missing parent. In Andalusian fowls, the black (B) and white (W) alleles are incompletely dominant (B) and white individuals (W) are homozygous. These alleles are incompletely dominant. Heterozygous fowls are bluish gray. A black bird is crossed with a bluish gray bird. What is the probability that the offspring are black? White? Bluish gray? B W BW ww BW ww % white % black % bluish gray B.

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Find the genotype of the missing
parent. In Andalusian fowls, the
black (B) and white (W) alleles are
incompletely dominant
In Andalusian fowls, black individudls
(B) and white individuals (W) are
homozygous. These alleles are
incompletely dominant. Heterozygous
fowls are bluish gray. A black bird is
crossed with a bluish gray bird. What is
the probability that the offspring are
black? White? Bluish gray?
В
W
BW
ww
W
BW
ww
% white
% black
% bluish gray
B.
B.
Transcribed Image Text:Find the genotype of the missing parent. In Andalusian fowls, the black (B) and white (W) alleles are incompletely dominant In Andalusian fowls, black individudls (B) and white individuals (W) are homozygous. These alleles are incompletely dominant. Heterozygous fowls are bluish gray. A black bird is crossed with a bluish gray bird. What is the probability that the offspring are black? White? Bluish gray? В W BW ww W BW ww % white % black % bluish gray B. B.
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1. The genotypes of missing parents will be - BW and WW.

2. The probability of black offspring (BB) - 1/2 = 50%

Probability of bluish gray offspring (BW) - 1/2 = 50%

Probability of white offspring - 0 = 0%

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