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As you continue to cross the offspring resulting from the previous question with albinos, what will occur in the growing population?

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The offspring is/are going to be albino as well, because being albino is caused by being homozygous (true-breeding) recessive on the allele for albinism.

Let us recall that ALLELES are alternative versions of genes; Gregor Mendel's term for alleles is 'traits'. A monohybrid cross is a cross that follows the inheritance of a single gene (in this case, we are investigating the inheritance of the allele for albinism).

Below is an example of a cross between two albino parents:

Let 'a' be the allele for albinism; and being an albino means being homozygous recessive for 'a', which gives us the genotype 'aa' for both parents

Female: Male:

aa x aa

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