Friday, December 20, 2013

Extra Credit Lab Question





Honors Biology Extra Credit Lab Question 

Logical Reasoning:
It appears that the mother of the pups is yellow. Using this information, I deduce that the mother is probably dominant for Melanin production. However, some of her puppies are black and others are brown, so the mother was probably not dominant for color. This would mean that her genotype would have to be either ccMm or ccMM. The puppies were all dominant colors for color, so the father was homozygous dominant for color and heterozygous for melanin production, which would mean that the mother would also have to be heterozygous for the melanin production to get the colors of pups that were created.

Results: 
Mommy = ccMm
Daddy = CCMm

Conclusion:
These results are the only possible combination that I was able to find that would make sense for the color of puppies that were generated from the information provided about 


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