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Solutions For An Introduction to Genetic Analysis Chapter 6 Problem 34P

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In the example given, the frizzle fowl is exhibiting incomplete dominant heterozygous phenotype.

a) This is an example of an incomplete dominant heterozygous phenotype which gives rise to three different offspring.

P A/a (frizzle) X A/a (frizzle)

F1 1A/A (normal): 2 A/a (frizzle): 1 a/a (wooly)

b) For getting mass frizzle pair breeding should happen between a normal (A/A) and a Wooly (a/a), which would produce frizzle birds (A/a).

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