Question

. Ozzie Oompah has 7 sisters and brothers. Ozzie has purple hair and an orange face. In fact, all of his siblings have orange faces, but their hair color ranges form blue to purple to red. Given this information, determine the genotypes and phenotypes of Ozzie’s parents.

Answer 1

The phenotypes of Ozzie's parents are orange face, purple hair, red hair and blue hair. The genotypes of Ozzie's parents are homozygous orange face (OO), homozygous blue hair (BB), homozygous red hair (bb) and heterozygous purple hair (Bb). The purple hair is due to incomplete dominance.