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Suppose two brown haired parents have a red haired child what are the genotypes of each parent

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The answer would be that they both are heterozygous.
User Arsen Mkrtchyan
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1) B- brown; b- red hair

Having brown hair is a dominant trait while red hair is recessive.
If the parents had a red-haired child it means they were carriers of the red hair trait, so their genotype is Bb
(they are heterozygotic)


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