The offspring of two short-tailed cats have 25 percent chance of having no tail a 25 percent chance of having a long tail and a 50 percent chance of having a short tail Based on this information wh?

Answer 1

The reason is because short tail cats have both genes of a no tail cat and a genes of a long tail cat.

Lets say that a long tail gene is called gene A, and a no tail gene is called gene B.

if both cats have short tails that means both cats have both genes A and B equally. so there is a 50-50 chance that each cat gives either gene to the baby

This means the possible combinations are that one cat gives the baby an A and the other a B, remember that this possibility comes up twice since it doesn't matter which cat gives the A or the B. The other possibilities are that both cats give the kitten an A, or both cats give the kitten a B.

That leaves AB(short tail), BA(short tail), AA(long tail), BB(no tail)

so 25% for no tail, 25% for long tail, and 50% for short tail.

Answer 2

Based on this information, it seems that the tail length is determined by a single gene with incomplete dominance, where short tail is the dominant trait and long tail is the recessive trait. Therefore, the offspring inherit one gene for short tail from each parent (resulting in short tail), one gene for long tail from each parent (resulting in long tail), or one gene for short tail and one gene for long tail (resulting in no tail).