A certain species of cat shows incomplete dominance in tail length. The homozygous dominant variety shows a long tail, while a homozygous recessive variety shows no tail. In the heterozygote condition, cats have short tails.

What is the predicted percent phenotype of the offspring produced by two cats with short tails?

Responses

A: 100% short tail

B: 100% no tail

C: 25% short tail; 25% long tail; 50% no tail

D: 25% no tail; 25% long tail; 50% short tail

Question

A certain species of cat shows incomplete dominance in tail length. The homozygous dominant variety shows a long tail, while a homozygous recessive variety shows no tail. In the heterozygote condition, cats have short tails.

What is the predicted percent phenotype of the offspring produced by two cats with short tails?

Responses

A: 100% short tail

B: 100% no tail

C: 25% short tail; 25% long tail; 50% no tail

D: 25% no tail; 25% long tail; 50% short tail

xXChudLord420Xx · Answer

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curriful · Answer

@xxchudlord420xx wrote:

Created with Raphaëlsince the Tall (L) is dominant, it will showover the recessive short (l) genesince the whole punnet square has L'sthe cat would have 100% of having a long tailReply Using Drawing

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OLIVER69 · Answer

@xxchudlord420xx wrote:

Created with Raphaëlsince the Tall (L) is dominant, it will showover the recessive short (l) genesince the whole punnet square has L'sthe cat would have 100% of having a long tailReply Using Drawing

Thanks to this, the correct answer would be D

Illuminous · Answer

Thank you for the Explanation @xxchudlord420xx

Treeko · Answer

@xxchudlord420xx wrote:

Created with Raphaëlsince the Tall (L) is dominant, it will showover the recessive short (l) genesince the whole punnet square has L'sthe cat would have 100% of having a long tailReply Using Drawing

Thanks! Easier than trying to type it out

prettygirl15 · Answer

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