in human beings, blue eyecolor is recessive to brown eyecolor. If a brown eyed man has a blue eyed mother, then find- a) what are the possible genotypes of his father? b) What is the genotype of the man and his mother.
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| 29th Dec, 2012,
05:14: PM
Expert Answer:
Geneticists represent brown eyes with a B and blue eyes with a b. A brown-eyed person may be either BB or Bb.
So the fathers genotypes may be either BB or Bb.
The mother is bb, since she has blue eyes, which is a recessive trait.
Hence the Son is Bb.
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| 1st Jan, 2013,
03:07: PM
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