Question

A cat is blinded in one eye in a fight. When this cat later sexually reproduces with another cat, how will the blindness affect the offspring?
A) All of the offspring will be blind because blindness is a dominant trait.
B) Some of the offspring will be blind if the blind cat passes on the allele for blindness.
C) None of the offspring will inherit blindness from this cat, because it is not a genetic trait.
D) Most of the offspring will be blind if the other parent cat carries the same allele for blindness. A cat is blinded in one eye in a fight. When this cat later sexually reproduces with another cat, how will the blindness affect the offspring?
A) All of the offspring will be blind because blindness is a dominant trait.
B) Some of the offspring will be blind if the blind cat passes on the allele for blindness.
C) None of the offspring will inherit blindness from this cat, because it is not a genetic trait.
D) Most of the offspring will be blind if the other parent cat carries the same allele for blindness. @Biology

Answer 1

C) None of the offspring will inherit blindness from this cat, because it is not a genetic trait.

Answer 2

C) None of the offspring will inherit blindness from this cat, because it is not a genetic trait.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The reason for this is that physical traits (phenotype) are affected by genes and environment. Every living creature has some level of "phenotypic plasticity" which is just the ability to acclimate to our environment through things such as working out and getting stronger. But the basis of what you inherit is limited to what genes you inherited at birth from your parents along with any mistakes (mutations) in that process. Hopefully that gives you some insight into the "why" of how becoming blind in a fight wouldn't affect it's offspring.