Two short-haired guinea pigs have several offspring over the course of a few years. Out of 100 offspring, 25 of them have long h

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Two short-haired guinea pigs have several offspring over the course of a few years. Out of 100 offspring, 25 of them have long h

air. What are the probable genotypes of the parents

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Llana [10] · Answer 1 · 2023-04-04T23:39:20+03:00

The genotype of the short-haired parents that produced some long hair offsprings is probably heterozygous.

<h3>What is heterozygosity?</h3>

Heterozygous means an organism which has two different alleles of a given gene.

An organism that is heterozygous posseses two different alleles of the same gene. For example, in this gene coding for hair length;

L represents short hair (dominant)
l represents long hair (recessive)

Therefore, if two short-haired parents produce 100 offsprings and 25 of them are long-haired, it means that they were probably heterozygous for the short hair.

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