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You are a geneticist and two very angry hobbits, Pippin and Lola, come storming into your office. Pippin and Lola have just had a newborn baby girl named Beatrice. Beatrice has blue eyes, but pippin and Lola both have green eyes. Green eyes are dominant over blue eyes. Pippin thinks that Beatrice is not his baby, and is very angry with lola. Determine how it is in fact possible for Beatrice to be pippins baby girl.

A) What are pippin and Lola's genotype?
B) What is Beatrice's genotype?

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Answer:

a:Gg

b:gg

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Answer:

A.) If "G" is the dominant green-eyed gene and "g" is the blue-eyed gene, then Pippin and Lola's genotypes will both be Gg.

B.) Beatrice's genotype is gg.

Step-by-step explanation:

I put this answer in the other question, but this just popped up as well so here you go :)

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