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?
A) What are Pippin and Lola's genotype?
B) What is Beatrice's genotype?
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Answer:
Please find the expected genotypes and phenotypes of the progenies of each cross below.
Explanation:
In the MN blood-group locus of the gene, alleles LM and LN exhibit codominance i.e one allele is not dominant or recessive to the other, hence, they are both expressed when they occur in a heterozygous state (MN).
Considering the following crosses (find the punnet square attached);
a)LMLM x LMLN - The progeny are LMLM and LMLN in the genotypic ratio 1:1. Phenotypic ratio is Blood type M (1) : blood type MN (1)
b) LNLN x LNLN - The progeny are all LNLN offsprings with a phenotypic and genotypic ratio 4:0. All offsprings will have a blood type N (4)
c) LMLN x LMLN - The progenies are LMLM, LMLN and LNLN in the genotypic ratio 1:2:1 respectively. The phenotypic ratio is Blood type M (1) : L
Blood type MN (2) : Blood type N (1)
d) LMLN x LNLN - The progeny are LMLN and LNLN with genotypic ratio 1:1 and phenotypic ratio blood type MN (1) : blood type N (1)
e) LMLM x LNLN - The progeny are all LMLN offsprings with penotypic ratio blood type MN (4)
