Question

2. In sheep black wool is recessive to white wool. What happens when you mate a black ram (male) to a heterozygous ewe (female). W= white, w = black.

Answer 1

Answer:

50% will be white (Ww) and 50% will be black (ww)

Explanation:

Here's what the punnett square should look like.

In order for the black ram to have its coloring it would need to have 2 recessive genes (ww). The female is heterozygous, meaning she carries both genes (Ww) but only exhibits the dominant gene, in this case white fur (though they can pass the recessive gene on to their children). Simply filling out the punnett squares shows the outcome of the offspring.