Two people have decided to have offspring.  The mother is homozygous type A and the father is homozygous type B.  This means the offspring will have  100% chance of being which blood type?

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Two people have decided to have offspring.  The mother is homozygous type A and the father is homozygous type B.  This means the offspring will have  100% chance of being which blood type?

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Genotype refers to the genetic makeup of an organism, whereas phenotype refers to the traits that are present in a gene. Allele pairs are generally referred to as homozygous alleles or heterozygous alleles. Dominant alleles are those which produce complete effects in a heterozygote, whereas recessives alleles are not fully expressed in the phenotype of a heterozygote. Recessive alleles tend to get expressed only in a homozygous condition.  

The Punnett square is a graphical representation that is used to predict the genotypes of a specific cross. It is capable of determining the probability of offspring genotype. 

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