Question: you have four guinea pigs for a genetic study one...
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You have four guinea pigs for a genetic study. One male and one
female are from a strain that is pure-breeding for short brown fur.
A second male and female are from a strain that is pure-breeding
for long white fur. You are asked to perform two different
experiments to test the proposal that short fur is dominant to long
fur and that brown is dominant to white. You may use any of the
four original pure-breeding guinea pigs or any of their offspring
in experimental matings. Design two different experiments (crossing
different animals and using different combinations of phenotypes)
to test the dominance relationships of alleles for fur length and
color, and make predictions for each cross based on the proposed
relationships. Anticipate that the litter size will be 12 for each
mating and that female guinea pigs can produce three litters in
their lifetime.
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