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A family is made up of a father who belongs to blood group A and the mother to blood group O. What is the father's genotype? What genotype would the possible children of the marriage have? Represent in the Punnett square.

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The father's blood group A genotype could be IAIA or IAi, while the mother's genotype is ii for blood group O. Their children could have genotypes IAi (blood type A) or ii (blood type O), represented by a Punnett square.

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In this scenario, the father's genotype for blood group A could be either IAIA (homozygous) or IAi (heterozygous), since the A allele can be dominant over the O allele. However, since the mother belongs to blood group O, her genotype must be ii, as O is always recessive. The potential genotypes of their children would depend on the father's genotype. If the father is heterozygous (IAi), the potential genotypes of the children could be either IAi or ii, giving them either blood type A or blood type O respectively. If the father is homozygous (IAIA), all children will have the genotype IAi and thus blood type A. A Punnett square can represent these possibilities, where one parent's alleles are listed across the top and the other parent's down the side, with the resulting potential genotypes for their children in the squares.

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