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In cattle, black coat color is dominant to white coat color. A farmer has a black male of undetermined genotype. How can the farmer determine the genotype of the black male?

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by looking at the offspring's phenotype

By observing phenotype of a cattle, the farmer can determine its genotype.

What do you mean by phenotype?

  • Phenotype is an observable characteristics.
  • Example: hair color, eye color, etc.
  • It depends upon the genotype composition.

What do you mean by genotype?

  • "Genotype refers to the genetic makeup of an organism."

It is given that black coat color is dominant and dominant allele for black color is denoted by B and recessive one is denoted by b.

So, in order to have black color the possible genotype would be Bb or BB.

If the offspring of the cattle have black color too, the genotype will be BB.

And if the offspring of the cattle have both black color as well as non-black color, the genotype will be Bb.

Hence, the farmer can determine the genotype of the black male by its phenotype.

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