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The cross that will produce only horned Roan offspring in cattle is the red bull with the white cow. However, these offspring would be able to create either red, white, or Roan.

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If you mate a Hereford bull with horns to a female without horns if the female is homozygous for the no horns how many calves could be born without horns Why?

This is not a matter of how many it's a matter of chance in terms of percentages. In this example, any bull that is horned is ONLY homozygous, both phenotypically AND genotypically, for horned because the horned gene in cattle is recessive. The polled (non-horned) characteristic in cattle is a dominant trait both phenotypically and genotypically. So that means that any horned parent that breeds a homozygous polled parent will have offspring that are ALL polled. The only way you will get horned offspring is one of two ways: a horned sire mates with a horned dam, or, a hetero polled sire mates with a hetero polled dam (resulting in a much smaller chance than the first way). The question above is answered as followed:Homozygous Horned (Hereford) bull x Homozygous Polled female = 100% Polled offspring.I cannot use the Punnett square on this site, but if you use it on a piece of paper you will see that 100% of all offspring are polled. But notice that genotypically they are HETEROZYGOUSLY polled. This means they are polled physically, but in their genes their offspring have a 50% chance, should this offspring be bred to a horned partner, of having either horned offspring or polled offspring. If the offspring of the above cross were bred to a polled partner, the results would be 50% hetero polled and 50% homozygously polled. AND, if the above offspring were bred also to a hetero polled partner, you would get, phenotypically, 75% polled and 25% horned. Genotypically, this is 25% homozygously polled, 50% hetero polled, and 25% homozygously horned.See, the most a cow can have in her lifetime is 20 calves. There is no way that she can have 100 or so calves in her lifetime to see this example work out. Producers have to go by chances of an event happening when selectively breeding cattle, not how many.


Will a longhorn bull put horns on an angus?

No. Horns are recessive-dominant, thus only appear if both parents are heterozygous polled (appear polled but have the horn gene), one is horned and the other hetero polled, or both are horned. Angus are homozygous polled, which means the first generation of offspring from a cross such as this will give you calves that are polled. They will, however, have the horn gene which means that if they are bred to a horned bull or cow, there's a much greater chance that their offspring will be horned.


If a hornless bull mates with a horned cow what are the two genotypes of the two parents?

Hornless = polled. Polled cows and bulls can be either homozygous polled or heterozygous polled. So, since we have no idea of what kind of calf they produce, the genotypical cross will look like this: (H = polled and h= horned) H_ x hh "H_" symbolizes the unknown allele that the polled bull has. Is he hetero polled or homozygous polled? The "hh" of the cow symbolizes she is homozygous horned, since the horned trait in cattle is a recessive trait: polled gene is dominant.


Is a Bradford bull a cross breed or a Bos Tarus?

The Braford breed is a result of crossbreeding Brahman with Hereford. The breed has been created in such a way that resulting offspring of this F1 cross no longer have hybrid vigour (or less so than the initial Brahman-Hereford cross), and thus create cattle that can be registered as purebred Braford cattle.


Do alligators and crocodiles mate if so what are they called?

No, they cannot. When we talk about animal ancestry, there is a tree of decent: Kingdom: Superphylum: Phylum: Subphylum: Superclass: Class: Subclass: Superorder: Order: Suborder: Family: Subfamily: Tribe: Subtribe: Genus: Subgenus: Species: Subspecies In order for two animals to produce offspring that are capable of reproducing, the animals shoul both be of the same species. Closly related species can mate and produce infertile offspring in some situations, but usually only if those species share the same genus. When you think of interesting 'cross breeds' like the mule, liger, or wolf-dog, the animals are of difference species, but they share a common genus (i.e. horses and donkeys are both of the genus equus, lions and tigers are both of the genus panthera, wolves and domestic dogs are both of the genus canis, etc). Successful cross-genus mating is extremely rare... The few cross genus offspring that do exist are primarily in the bovidae family (cattle/buffalo/yak/etc). Cross family offspring are practically non-existant, having only been known to occur with a limited number of birds. Crocodiles and alligators don't share the same Family, and they cannot produce offspring together.

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If you mate a Hereford bull with horns to a female without horns if the female is homozygous for the no horns how many calves could be born without horns Why?

This is not a matter of how many it's a matter of chance in terms of percentages. In this example, any bull that is horned is ONLY homozygous, both phenotypically AND genotypically, for horned because the horned gene in cattle is recessive. The polled (non-horned) characteristic in cattle is a dominant trait both phenotypically and genotypically. So that means that any horned parent that breeds a homozygous polled parent will have offspring that are ALL polled. The only way you will get horned offspring is one of two ways: a horned sire mates with a horned dam, or, a hetero polled sire mates with a hetero polled dam (resulting in a much smaller chance than the first way). The question above is answered as followed:Homozygous Horned (Hereford) bull x Homozygous Polled female = 100% Polled offspring.I cannot use the Punnett square on this site, but if you use it on a piece of paper you will see that 100% of all offspring are polled. But notice that genotypically they are HETEROZYGOUSLY polled. This means they are polled physically, but in their genes their offspring have a 50% chance, should this offspring be bred to a horned partner, of having either horned offspring or polled offspring. If the offspring of the above cross were bred to a polled partner, the results would be 50% hetero polled and 50% homozygously polled. AND, if the above offspring were bred also to a hetero polled partner, you would get, phenotypically, 75% polled and 25% horned. Genotypically, this is 25% homozygously polled, 50% hetero polled, and 25% homozygously horned.See, the most a cow can have in her lifetime is 20 calves. There is no way that she can have 100 or so calves in her lifetime to see this example work out. Producers have to go by chances of an event happening when selectively breeding cattle, not how many.


Will a longhorn bull put horns on an angus?

No. Horns are recessive-dominant, thus only appear if both parents are heterozygous polled (appear polled but have the horn gene), one is horned and the other hetero polled, or both are horned. Angus are homozygous polled, which means the first generation of offspring from a cross such as this will give you calves that are polled. They will, however, have the horn gene which means that if they are bred to a horned bull or cow, there's a much greater chance that their offspring will be horned.


What is the crossing of plants and animals to produce specific traits in the offspring?

It is called cross-breeding, selective breeding or hybridization.


Which cross would produce the least phenotypic variation?

There are two choices that produce the least phenotypic variation. AA times aa produces only Aa offspring. AA times Aa produces and AA and Aa offspring.


If a hornless bull mates with a horned cow what are the two genotypes of the two parents?

Hornless = polled. Polled cows and bulls can be either homozygous polled or heterozygous polled. So, since we have no idea of what kind of calf they produce, the genotypical cross will look like this: (H = polled and h= horned) H_ x hh "H_" symbolizes the unknown allele that the polled bull has. Is he hetero polled or homozygous polled? The "hh" of the cow symbolizes she is homozygous horned, since the horned trait in cattle is a recessive trait: polled gene is dominant.


Can plants of different genus cross naturally and are there exceptions if most can't cross?

The very definition of a species is that it cannot produce a fertile offspring with an organism from a different species.


Is a Bradford bull a cross breed or a Bos Tarus?

The Braford breed is a result of crossbreeding Brahman with Hereford. The breed has been created in such a way that resulting offspring of this F1 cross no longer have hybrid vigour (or less so than the initial Brahman-Hereford cross), and thus create cattle that can be registered as purebred Braford cattle.


What effect do the factors inherited by the first offspring of a cross have on other offspring of that cross?

It is important to remember that the factors inherited by the first offspring of a cross have no effect at all on other offspring of that cross. For example, there is a 25% probability that offspring of a cross betweet two hybrid bean plants will inherit the factos RR. If one offspring inherits RR, there is still a 25% probability that the next offspring will also inherit RR.


What is the probability that a cross between a hybrid pea plant with round seeds and one with wrinkled seeds will produce offspring with wrinkled seeds?

The probability that an offspring will have wrinkled seeds is 2 in 4 or 50%


A cross between two pea plants that produce yellow seeds results in 124 offspring 93 produce yellow seeds and 31 produce green seeds what are the likely genotypes of the plants that were crossed?

Yy


What is the name of the offspring of the first cross?

the second cross


What will have only two possible phenotypes?

Any cross of parents for a single trait where the dominant allele completely masks any expression of the recessive allele as follows:Parents are both heterozygous for the trait. For example Aa X Aa produces 75% of offspring with the dominant phenotype and 25% with the recessive phenotype.One parent is heterozygous for the trait and the other parent is homozygous recessive. For example: Aa X aa produces 50% offspring with the dominant phenotype and 50% offspring with the recessive phenotype.If the trait is co-dominant/non-dominant a heterozygote would have the median characteristic and a homozygote could be either of two phenotypes. If T is tall and t is short the Tt offspring would bemedium in this example. The way to produce offspring with only two phenotypes would be to cross a heterozygous parent with a homozygous parent. For Example:Tt X tt cross would produce 50% tt (short) offspring and 50% Tt (medium) offspring. A TT X Tt cross would produce 50% TT (tall) offspring and 50% Tt (medium) offspring.