Question

The Fisher Family There are six people in the Fisher family. Olivia and Marcus are the parents. They have four children, Violet, Nathan, Jonas, and Claudia. 1. Neither Olivia nor Marcus have freckles. a. What is Olivia's genotype? b. What is Marcus' genotype? c. How many children have freckles?

Answer 1

As freckles are a dominant trait, if neither of the parents have freckles, which would be shown with one allele, they don't have it so they wouldn't be able to pass it to their offspring.

a. If F is the dominant allele for freckles, Olivia's genotype would be ff.

b. Marcu0s genotype would be ff too.

c. None of the chlidren have freckles.