Question

BRAINLIEST: In dolphins, to have spots on the skin is a recessive trait. One spotted dolphin and one solid gray dolphin have a baby spotted dolphin. Go through the following steps to figure out the genotype of the parent dolphins.

1) what are the POSSIBLE genotypes of the solid grey dolphin?

2) what is the genotype of the baby spotted dolphin?

Answer 1

Answer:

1) Ss

2) ss

Explanation:

Spots (recessive) - s

No spots (dominant) - S

So the possible combination to get a baby spotted dolphin may be: Ss and ss

Punnett Square:

    |   S   |  s   |

 s |  Ss  |  ss  |

 s |  Ss  |  ss  |

So the genotype of the Solid gray dolphin might have been a dominant allele and a recessive allele, which is Ss.

Moreover the genotype of the spotted baby dolphin might me ss.