Question

How many descendants with the dominant trait would appear?

A) All descendants will have the dominant trait.
B) None of the descendants will have the dominant trait.
C) Some descendants will have the dominant trait while others won't.
D) Cannot be determined from the information provided.

Answer 1

Answer: I believe it would be D.

Explanation: There is no description given on who has a dominate trait and who has a recessive. Dominant trait looked for in offsprings depends on their parents to pass it down. If their is no problem solving or description as to who even has a dominant trait, an exact answer can't be provided.

Answer 2

Without specific genotypic information, the exact number of descendants with the dominant trait cannot be determined, but Mendelian genetics principles provide probabilities based on parental genotypes.

Step-by-step explanation:

When considering inheritance patterns and how they affect the presence of dominant traits in descendants, if specific information about the parents' genotypes is not provided, the exact number of descendants exhibiting the dominant trait cannot be determined. However, based on the principles of Mendelian genetics, in cases where one parent is homozygous dominant (AA) and the other parent is homozygous recessive (aa), all offspring would be heterozygous (Aa) and exhibit the dominant trait. Conversely, if both parents are heterozygous (Aa), on average, 75% of their offspring would exhibit the dominant trait due to the dominant allele's expression over the recessive allele in a heterozygous individual.