As we've learned, dads contribute one Y or one X chromosome to their offspring. Girls get two X chromosomes, one from Mom and one from Dad. This means that your daughter will inheritX-linked genes from her fatheras well as her mother. What ethnicity has the thickest hair? In most case...
Although a direct comparison approach, such as the one employed above, does not permit the calculation of genotyping errors, which might lead to a mismatch between a candidate parent and its offspring, incorporating ploidy and known levels of inbreeding are not possible with existing software (see...
Do a dihybrid cross Punnett square to determine the possible genotypes of the offspring of an organism with the genotype BBtt and and organism with the genotype bbTt. How many of the offspring have the dominant phenotype for bo...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Carrion crows and hooded crows are almost indistinguishable genetically, and hybrid offspring are fertile. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich biologists now show that the two forms have remained distinct largely owing to the dominant role of plumage color in mat...