According to the punnet square, if you combine a parental homogeneous dominant trait and a heterogeneous trait. 1 out of the 4 boxes will be homogeneously recessive.
Answer:
Alleles for feather colour exhibit incomplete dominance or co-dominance.
50% gray offspring + 50% black offspring
Explanation:
<em>It means that the alleles for feather colour in the hen exhibit incomplete dominance or co-dominance over one another.</em>
Assuming the allele for white colour is B, white colour will be b while the heterozygote Bb gives the gray phenotype.
Gray rooster + gray hen = 15 gray chicks, 6 black chicks and 8 white chicks.
15:6:8 is roughly 2:1:1 which is phenotypic ratio obtainable from crossing two heterozygous individuals as pointed out by Mendel.
Bb x Bb = 1BB, 2Bb, and 1bb
Crossing the gray rooster (Bb) with a black hen (bb):
Bb x bb = Bb, Bb, bb, and bb
= 2Bb (gray):2bb (black)
50% of the offspring will be gray while the remaining 50% will be black.
