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What are the homozygous letters of a tall parent?
Uhh.. theoretically, if you were to represent a tall parent's genotype they would be something like TT, but it's much more complicated than that. Height is a multifactorial polygenic trait that can't be expressed as a single genotype, practically.
What letters are used to represent a homozygous?
Two of the same letter. For example, if you have a homozygous organism for dominant red color, then the letters to represent their genotype would be RR. However, if the red color is a recessive trait, then a homozygous organism with that trait will have the genotype rr.
Is the trait TT heterozygous or homozygous?
Yes.A homozygous genotype is a gene with two identical alleles. Recessive genes are represented by a lowercase letter. Thus, a homozygous recessive genotype would be two identical genes with lowercase letters.
What percentage of genotypes would most likely be found in the f1 generation offspring?
If the parent generation consisted of a homozygous dominant parent and a homozygous recessive parent, then the F1 generation would be 100% heterozygous.
What type of letter do you use to represent a dominant trait?
Capital letter such as R for dominant and r for recessive trait
How would the smiley face change if one parent were homozygous dominant for all the traits while the other was heterozygous?
If one parent is homozygous dominant for all traits, they can only pass on dominant alleles, while the heterozygous parent can pass on either dominant or recessive alleles. This would result in a combination of offspring that are either homozygous dominant or heterozygous for each trait, but none would be homozygous recessive. Consequently, the overall phenotype of the smiley face would predominantly express the dominant traits.
What are produced by each parent that are shown along the sides of a Punnett square?
The two separate alleles of each parent. E.g. one parent is Aa and the other is AA. The top side would have 'A' in each column and the left side would have 'A' in one row and 'a' in the other.
How do you represent alleles?
Alleles are represented as: Gg Where G is the dominant trait and g is the recessive trait Therefore, homozygous dominant would be: GG Homozygous recessive would be: gg and heterozygous would be Gg
How would a baby change if one parent was homozygous dominant for all the traits and the other parent was heterozygous?
If one parent is homozygous dominant for all traits (carrying two dominant alleles for each trait), and the other parent is heterozygous (carrying one dominant and one recessive allele for each trait), there would be a 100% chance that the baby would inherit the dominant alleles from the homozygous dominant parent. Therefore, the baby would also be heterozygous for all the traits, carrying one dominant and one recessive allele for each trait.
What are the letters for heterozygous?
Actually, there aren't specific letters. The letters depend on the alleles. For example, if the alleles are A and a, then Aa would be heterozygous, since hetero means different. Homozygous, however, would be two of the same alleles, since homo means same. The homozygous would be AA or AA in this example. hope this helped!
If all the offspring of a testcross are alike and resemble the organism being tested then is the parent homozygous?
Not necessarily. The offspring being alike and resembling the organism being tested is an indication of the parent being homozygous for the traits being tested, but it is not a definitive proof. Further tests or observations would be needed to confirm the parent's genotype.
In crossing a homozygous recessive with a heterozygote what is the chance of getting a homozygous recessive phenotype in the F1 generation?
1/2 or 50%. The homozygous recessive gentoype contains two recessive alleles for the gene for a trait. So the homozygous recessive individual can pass on only recessive alleles to an offspring. The heterozygous individual has one dominant and one recessive allele for the gene for a trait. So the heterozygous individual can pass on either a dominant or a recessive allele to an offspring. So if an offspring inherits a recessive allele from the heterozygous parent, along with the recessive allele from the homozygous recessive parent, it will have the homozygous recessive genotype and phenotype.
