A rooster with white feathers is mated with a gray hen of the same phenotype. Among their offspring, 28 chicks are gray 31 are white. What is the simplest explanation for the inheritance of these colors in chickens?

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Ruby Krause

3 September, 11:40

A rooster with white feathers is mated with a gray hen of the same phenotype. Among their offspring, 28 chicks are gray 31 are white. What is the simplest explanation for the inheritance of these colors in chickens?

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Quintin Frye · Answer 1

The chickens that were born from this cross show incomplete dominance.

Explanation:

The colors of chicken feathers are determined by two genes. A dominant "A" gene that determines black color and a recessive "a" gene that determines white color. In addition, chickens may present the gray color that occurs when the alleles establish an incomplete dominance, which is the type of inheritance that happens when a heterozygous individual (presents the Aa alleles) has an intermediate characteristic in relation to the characteristics determined by the two alleles.

Based on this, we can say that at the crossing shown above, there was an inheritance determined by incomplete dominance.