Question

A brown rooster is mated with a brown chicken and they have five offspring. Two are brown and three are white, which is a recessive trait. What is the most likely explanation for this? (5 points)

All of the white chickens carry a mutation.

Feather color is not hereditary.

Both parents carried the trait for white feathers.

Those chicks had less time to develop in the egg.

Answer 1

I believe it is c. both parents carried the trait

Step-by-step explanation:

I think its this because when youre using the square method and end up with a recessive trait that means both parents had to have carried that trait.