So here we have two heterozygous organisms that will mate. You can put them into a Punnet square, just to be sure of your answers and to find all possible genotypes :
R r
R RR Rr
r Rr rr
So you have RR, Rr and rr as your possible genotypes.
They hold DNA( hope this helps)
A male drake will result with XY chromosome and a female drake would have XX chromosomes
The answer is One solution is to limit the scope of the study. Another possibility
is do several smaller studies over a longer period of time.
I believe the answer is proteins. hope this helped! :)