A farmer mates a bull that is homozygous dominant for color (BB) and heterozygous curly for coat (Cc) with a cow that is homozygous white for color (bb) and homozygous for a straight coat (cc). What is the percent chance of the offspring having a white curly coat?

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Answer:

Zero %

Explanation:

Male is BBCc and  Female is bbcc , then

BBCc x bbCc will always give the B allele in all the F1 generation combinations.  That is, all individuals will be coloured, although a half can be straight coat.

If you use a Punnett square, it will be easy to visualize the cross

For the white curly coat, the percent chance of offspring would be -  zero percent.

Dihybrid cross

In the given case there is a dihybrid cross as it is a cross between two individuals who differ in two observed traits that are controlled by two distinct genes.

It is cross between h-m-zygous dominant for color (BB) and heterozygous curly for a coat (Cc) which constitutes it genotype - BBCc and h-m-zygous white for color (bb) and hmzygous for a straight coat (cc) which constitutes - bbcc.

Cross - BBCc X bbcc

gametes - BC, Bc and bc

Punnett square:

      BC         Bc

bc   BbCc    Bbcc

bc BbCc     Bbcc

we get color curly  and color straight coat on 50% chances each.

For the white curly coat, the percent chance of offspring would be -  zero percent as one should have bbCc or bbCC.

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