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Introductory Animal Genetics
Animal Science 221

Law of Independent Assortment

Let E designate a dominant allele in horses producing a black coat color and e represent the recessive, such that ee is chestnut. Also, let T represent the dominant allele for Tobiano spotting and t represent the recessive allele for solid coat color, such that tt is solid color.

The genotypic and phenotypic relationships are:
E_T_       Black and spotted
E_tt       Solid black
eeT_       Chestnut and spotted
eett       Solid chestnut

Fill in the expected ratios of progeny phenotypes for each mating. Once you have filled in all the ratios for a mating, press the "Check" button to check your answers. If a phenotype is not possible for a particular mating put a zero in the box corresponding to that phenotype.

Choose a mating:

Eett x Eett

F1 x Solid Chestnut

Eett x EeTT

F1 x F1

Black and spotted

Solid black

Chestnut and spotted

Solid chestnut




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