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Genetics? Genotype/phenotype problem?

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#1. In dragons, the allele for orange eyes (G) is dominant to the allele for green eyes (g) & fire breathing ability (F) is dominant to nonfire breathing (f). If a homozygous orange eyed fire breather mates with a green eyed nonfire breather, predict the phenotypic ratios for the F1 & F2.

#2. An orange eyed fire breather mates with a green eyed nonfire breather & 4 baby dragons hatch:

1 green eyed fire breather

1 orange eyed fire breather

1 orange eyed nonfire breather

1 green eyed nonfire breather

Give the genotypes for all of the individuals

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  1. eris_herself is correct, except for question 2, where the answer should have the allele G, instead of creating a new gene, O.

    The genotypes in #2 are:

    ggFf, green-eyed fire breather

    GgFf, orange-eyed fire breather

    Ggff, orange-eyed nonfire breather

    ggff, green-eyed, nonfire breather


  2. 1-

    F1

    all orange-eyed fire breather

    F2

    9/16 orange eye fire breather 3/16 green eye fire breather 3/16 orange eye non-fire breather 1/16 green eye non-fire breather

    2-

    ggFf

    OgFf

    Ogff

    ggff

    in the order you asked. g: green eye allele O: orange eye allele F: fire breather allele f: non-fire breather allele

    edit: It practically does not matter which letters you take, I found calling the orange eye allele O and green eye g to be a clearer presentation. You'd have to do like this if the alleles were codominant anyway. So I did not create a new gene, and tried to make it clear that O and g were two alleles of the same gene.

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