Question

A rabbit is born with brown(g) fur. It has 9 other siblings from the same

litter, and they all have white(G) fur.
Select the True Statements.
• Brown fur is caused by a mutation
•The dominant allele is G
•The dominant allele is g
•gG is a genotype for white fur
•Brown fur is the recessive trait
•Gg is a genotype for brown fur
•The recessive allele is g
•White fur is dominant over brown fur

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

What we know:

1 rabbit born with brown fur (g).

9 other siblings with white fur (G).

The correct answers:

- The dominant allele is G

• This is because G is capitalized, and there are more white bunnies than brown.

- Brown fur is the recessive trait

• We see that (g) isn't capitalized for the brown bunny, and that there was only 1 brown bunny out of the 10 bunnies in total. So, brown fur is a recessive trait.

- The recessive allele is g

• This is correct because g isn't capitalized, and acts recessive, or doesn't appear unless the genotype is gg, in which the recessive trait will then appear/unhide.

- White fur is dominant over brown fur

• There is more white fur bunnies than brown fur bunnies, so the white fur trait is dominating the brown fur trait.

I hope this helps!

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