Two puppies are born in the same litter. One has blue eyes and the other has brown eyes. Develop a hypothesis as to why the puppies have different eye color. Justify your hypothesis in two or more complete sentences in the essay box below.

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itsmehjay · Answer

Well one of the puppies may have developed a dominant trait from one of their parents to receive the different eye color.

daddyemma · Answer

Their parents could have mixed genetics. This means that their parents could have dominant AND recessive traits (heterozygous)

Fan999 · Answer

@itsmehjay wrote:

Well one of the puppies may have developed a dominant trait from one of their parents to receive the different eye color.

@daddyemma wrote:

Their parents could have mixed genetics. This means that their parents could have dominant AND recessive traits (heterozygous)

Their parents and the genetics would be the only way for them to get a different eye color.