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what genotypes would be produced by crossing a grasshopper with both color stripes and one with yellow stripes

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Alright:

If you cross color stripes (A) and yellow stripes (Y) you use punned squares to figure out the rest.

In genetics, you can have 3 combinations. Aa, AA, and aa (or Yy, YY, and yy). If you cross each of these in a punned square with each combination, you have 9 different possibilities- each that have 4 possibilities inside of them, making 36 total possible outcomes.

Although, most of the 36 are repeating, so you can get one of two answers: dominant (if it has a capital letter) and recessive (no capital letters)

To answer your question, you will have the following:

-a grasshopper with both colors.
-a grasshopper with yellow.
-a grasshopper with neither.
-a grasshopper with both.