) You decide that Ecology is the field for you and apply to the Oneonta State MS

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) You decide that Ecology is the field for you and apply to the Oneonta State MS in Biology program. Your major professor works on the predatory habits of snow leopards. In some species, the degree of tail kinkiness (from straight to bent to kinked) is determined by dosage of a functional allele that causes kinking. While you are helping your advisor out in the field, you keep track of numbers of animals of each type in a single litter. The mother had a bent tail, while the father had a fully-kinked tail.

A) What are the likely genotypes of the two parents?

B) Based on your answer to “A”, do you think there was an extra-pair copulation (the female mated with a second male)? Why or why not? (2pts)

please Show punnett square and detail information Thank you

Explanation / Answer

Part a-

If we consider the allele for tail kinkiness a ‘k’, then the genotypes will be following.

Mother- Kk

Father- kk

Part b-

If we cross the mother and father

Kk           x             kk

Gamete

k

K                                                                                            

Kk

K

kk

We can see that in progenies, we get only two types of genotypes it means there is possibility that the female must mated with a second male. To get third type of genotype, the female must have to mate with other male.

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Gamete

k

K                                                                                            

Kk

K

kk

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