Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
6th Edition
ISBN: 9781259700903
Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., Janice Fischer, Leroy Hood Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 2, Problem 23P
A third-grader decided to breed guinea pigs for her school science project. She went to a pet store and bought a male with smooth black fur and a female with rough white fur. She wanted to study the inheritance of those features and was sorry to see that the first litter of eight contained only rough black animals. To her disappointment, the second litter from those same parents contained seven rough black animals. Soon the first litter had begun to produce F2 offspring, and they showed a variety of coat types. Before long, the child had 125 F guinea pigs. Eight of them had smooth white coats, 25 had smooth black coats, 23 were rough and white, and 69 were rough and black.
| a. | How are the coat color and texture characteristics inherited? What evidence support your upports your conclusions? |
| b. | What |
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