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Cross a bay stallion with a cream mare. List all offspring phenotypes as a percentage

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buckskin(The horse has a tan or gold colored coat with black points (mane, tail, and lower legs))

palomino(gold coat and white mane and tail, the degree of whiteness can vary from bright white to yellow)

smoky black(coat is either black or a few shades lighter than true black)

Step-by-step explanation:

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  • buckskin(The horse has a tan or gold colored coat with black points (mane, tail, and lower legs))
  • palomino(gold coat and white mane and tail, the degree of whiteness can vary from bright white to yellow)
  • smoky black(coat is either black or a few shades lighter than true black)

Step-by-step explanation:

A bay horse is a black-based animal with the agouti gene, which is the modifier that limits the horse’s black color to its points (legs, mane, tail, eartips). The black-based horse can be either homozygous for the extension allele (two copies black – EE) or heterozygous (one copy black, one copy red – Ee). Because black is dominant, an Ee horse will appear black-based.

A horse can carry the agouti gene whether it is black or red (this is why a black horse bred to a chestnut or sorrel horse may produce a bay). It is impossible to tell phenotypically (from looking at the horse) if it is homozygous or heterozygous.

This means that when you cross a cremello (a sorrel/chestnut with two copies of the cream gene) on a bay (black with agouti), you can get buckskin, palomino or smoky black, depending on the horses’ exact gene combination.

references:

  • wikipedia.com
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