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What are the possible phenotypes of offspring for these parents(e+e1 *e+e1)?

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  1. I'm having a hard time understanding your question, but I'll give it a shot.

    As you know, we get one copy of each gene from each parent.  The two copies are known as alleles:  the paternal allele is from your dad and the maternal one is from your mom.

    So I guess what you are trying to represent is two parents, each of whom has one allele known as 'e' and a second allele known as 'e1'.  If this is the case, then they are both heterozygotes at this locus.  

    I could write a long description of the genetics of the offspring and of the Punnet square that illustrates this, but a picture is worth a thousand words and that is why Punnet squares were invented.  The Wikipedia entry has a nice picture of this exact type of Punnet square that you can look at.

    The end result is that 1/4 (25%) of the offspring will be ee, 1/4 (25%) of the offspring will be e1e1, and 1/2 (50%) of the offspring will be ee1.

    Hope this helps, but if it doesn't the Wikipedia entry also has a Punnet square illustrating a 2 gene, 4 allele cross as well.

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