Question

A farmer is breeding Andalusian chickens. He notices that when he mates a black chicken with a white chicken, the offspring are spotted black and white and look blue in color.

What is the name of this inheritance pattern? A) codominance B) segregation Eliminate C) multiple alleles D) incomplete dominance

Answer 1

A)codominance that's when you see two colors, spotted or striped.

Answer 2

A farmer is breeding Andalusian chickens. He notices that when he mates a black chicken with a white chicken, the offspring are spotted black and white and look blue in color. This is because the allele for the black color is as dominant as the allele for the white color. The punnett square in the image shows the cross between the two types of chicken. This is called codominance of the alleles when both the gene types get expressed in the progeny resulting in a mixed phenotype.