A species of mice can have long or short tails. If you crossed a male mouse which is heterozygous and has a long tail with a female mouse with a short tail, what would the expected phenotypic outcome be and why? A) 100% long tails due to the Law of Dominance. B) There is no way to predict the phenotypic ratio since one of the parents is heterozygous. C) 75% long tails and 25% short tails because the dominant allele for long tail still masks the recessive short tail allele. D) 50% long tails and 50% short tails because the heterozygous genotype increases the percentage of offspring that mi

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A species of mice can have long or short tails. If you crossed a male mouse which is heterozygous and has a long tail with a female mouse with a short tail, what would the expected phenotypic outcome be and why? A) 100% long tails due to the Law of Dominance.	 B) There is no way to predict the phenotypic ratio since one of the parents is heterozygous.	 C) 75% long tails and 25% short tails because the dominant allele for long tail still masks the recessive short tail allele.	 D) 50% long tails and 50% short tails because the heterozygous genotype increases the percentage of offspring that mi