A man and a woman both have brown eyes, but their first child has blue eyes.  What...

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A man and a woman both have brown eyes, but their first childhas blue eyes.  What are the chances that their secondchild will have blue eyes? Jane is blood type A and her husband isblood type B.  Jane is puzzled because their daughter istype O.  Explain how the daughter inherited a blood typeneither of her parents has.

Jim is blood type A and his mother is blood type O. What are thepossible blood types of his father?  (Three answers)

Jack is a hemophiliac (sex linked recessive) but his wife is not(sex linked dominant). What are the chances that they will have achild with hemophilia? (Give all possibilities)

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The brown eye form of the eye color gene or allele is dominant whereas the blue eye allele is recessiveIf both parents have brown eyes yet carry the allele for blue eyes a quarter of the children will have blue eyes and three quarters will have brown eyesSo if the parents are carrying a recessive blue eye gene then there is almost 25 chance of the baby having blue eyes One parent with A and another with B can produce    See Answer
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