Question

A female cat has two recessive genes for long fur (ss) and a male cat has two dominant genes for short fur (SS). What is the likelihood the two cats produce a kitten with short fur?

Answer 1

100%

Since the male cat is a homozygous dominant, it will pass on the dominant trait causing the offspring to all have short fur

Answer 2

The probability would be 100%

Step-by-step explanation:

As we know the characteristics of the kitten of the two cats presented in the above question, will be influenced by the dominance and recessivity relations between parents alleles.

As we can see from the question above, the male cat has dominant alleles for short fur (SS), while the female cat has resessive alleles for short fur (ss) and has long fur. The kitten cat generated by these two cats will be heterzigoto (Ss) and as we know the dominant gene is expressed in heterozygosis, so we can say that there is a 100% probability of the kitten have the short fur.