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If chestnut hair (E) is dominant over black hair (e), can two horses with black hair produce an offspring with chestnut hair? Explain your answer.

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If the horses with black hair have genes to produce offspring with chestnut hair, then it is entirely possible for to black horses to produce offspring that has chestnut hair. This gene may be from a parent, or may be a dominant feature in this species of horse.

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The offspring of two black horses cannot have chestnut hair. Since the black hair allele is recessive, both parents have to be his recessive and do not carry the dominant chestnut hair allele. The only allele the parents can pass back to their offspring is the black allele.

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