Question

you adopt a young calico cat from the shelter. before you get a chance to have her spayed, she becomes pregnant. you are not sure who fathered the kittens, but when they are born, half are full color orange including two female kittens

WHAT MUST THE MOM's dilute genotype be if she is full color but all of her non-orange kittens are grey? and What color is the father then, assuming he is not all white?

Gene Phenotype Allele Designation Pattern of Inheritance Agouti Black Orange Xoxo or Xooy Xoxo XoXº or Xo+Y TT Tabby T'T Tube Tito Toto Agouti Dominant Non-agouti Epistatic to tabby (aa) Black Dominant, masked by Brown orange Orange Co-Dominant and Calico/ Tortoiseshell sex-linked; epistatic Black to agouti and black Mackeral tabby (Co-) Dominance Blotched tabby hierarchy: Abyssinian tabby T>T>t Blotched/Mackeral Tabby pattern is Abyssinian/Mackeral masked by non- Blotched/Abyssinian agouti Full color Dominance Burmese hierarchy: Siamese C> > > > Tonkinese Environment affects Blue-eyed albino expression pattern Pink-eyed albino Not dilute Dominant Dilute >1/2 spotting Incomplete <1/2 spotting dominance No spotting Silver Dominant Not silver Color extension Dilute Piebald spotting SIS: 5152 5252 - Pigment inhibitor White W- ww Dominant with pleiotropic effects Dominant Fur length Completely white Not all white Short fur Long fur Dies in utero Manx tail Long tail Manx MM Mm Recessive lethal mm

Answer 1

The genotypic formula of mother will be $X^{\circ}^{\circ}$ $X^{\circ}+$

and the genotypic formula of faher will be

X + Y