Question

In a group of teocards, some individuals have a spotted coat and others have a black coat. Inthis group, the gene for the coat pattern trait has two alleles. The allele A is for a spottedcost, and the allele a is for a black coat.Farah is a leopard from this group. Farah's phenotype for the coat pattern trait is a spottedcat. Fera's genotype for the coat pattern gene is AA.Based on this information, complete the following statementfor the coat patter gene,homozygousheterozygous

Answer 1

The trait of interest is "coat pattern"

There are two observable phenotypes for this trait:

- Spotted coat

-Black coat

This trait is coded by two alleles:

A → code for a spotted coat

a → code for a black coat

Farah is a leopard with the phenotype "spotted coat" and its genotype is AA.

The genotype of this individual has two identical alleles. Genotypes with two identical alleles are called homozygous.