Question

You have found a population of wild rabbits with a uniform grey coat color. You suspect that the grey allele is recessive to normal coat color and dominant to chinchilla. Predict the outcome of the following matings if your hypothesis is correct.

Chinchilla (cch cch) x Grey (cg cg)

Answer 1

If the hypothesis is correct, the mating between Chinchilla and Grey rabbits will result in a combination of chinchilla and grey coat colors in the offspring.

Step-by-step explanation:

If the grey allele is recessive to the normal coat color and dominant to chinchilla, the outcome of the mating between Chinchilla (cch cch) and Grey (cg cg) can be predicted based on the dominance hierarchy of the alleles. In this case, the chinchilla allele is incompletely dominant over the grey allele.

When a chinchilla rabbit (cch cch) is crossed with a grey rabbit (cg cg), the possible genotypes of the offspring will be cch cg and cg cg. The phenotypes of these genotypes will be black-tipped white fur (chinchilla) and uniform grey coat color, respectively.

Therefore, if the hypothesis is correct, the outcome of this mating will result in a combination of chinchilla and grey coat colors in the offspring.