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In mice yellow (Y) is dominant to grey (y) coat color. However, the homozygous dominant genotype (YY) is lethal.If you cross two yellow mice, what proportion of the F1 offspring will be yellow?Group of answer choices3/42/31/3

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In mice yellow (Y) is dominant to grey (y) coat color. However, the homozygous dominant genotype (YY) is lethal.If you cross two yellow mice, what proportion of the F1 offspring will be yellow?Group of answer choices3/42/31/3

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The question is about genetics and inheritance. In mice, yellow coat color (Y) is dominant over grey (y). However, the homozygous dominant genotype (YY) is lethal. This means that a mouse with two Y alleles will not survive.

When you cross two yellow mice, their genotypes could be either heterozygous (Yy) or homozygous dominant (YY). However, since YY is lethal, we know that the yellow mice in this cross must be heterozygous (Yy).

So, both parent mice have the genotype Yy. When they reproduce, the possible combinations of alleles in their offspring are:

  • YY (which is lethal, so these mice will not survive)
  • Yy (which results in a yellow mouse)
  • yY (which also results in a yellow mouse)
  • yy (which results in a grey mouse)

So, out of the four possible outcomes, three result in a yellow mouse and one results in a grey mouse. However, one of the yellow outcomes is lethal, so we have to remove it from our calculations.

This leaves us with two yellow outcomes and one grey outcome. So, the proportion of the F1 offspring that will be yellow is 2/3.

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