Question

A male has type AB (IAIB) blood and a female has type O (ii) blood. Is it possible for their offspring to
have type A blood? Show your work on a punnett square.
Answer
4 row and 4 column square
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Do it again
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Do it again properly
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Actually 2 row and 2 column square
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A brown cow (BB) is crossed with a white cow (WW), the offspring of this cross results in a brown and
white spotted cow (BW). Complete a punnett square.
a. What type of inheritance is shown? _________________________ b. What is the genotypic ratio? _________________________ c. What is the phenotypic ratio? _________________________
Answered by GPT 3.5
To determine if their offspring can have type A blood, we need to use a Punnett square to see all the possible combinations of their alleles.

The male has type AB blood, which means he has alleles IA and IB.
The female has type O blood, which means she has alleles ii.

Let's set up the Punnett square:

| i | i |
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IA | IAi | IAi |
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IB | IBi | IBi |
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From the Punnett square, we can see that there are four possible combinations of alleles for their offspring:
1. IAi
2. IAi
3. IBi
4. IBi

Two out of the four possibilities result in the presence of allele A (IA), which means it is indeed possible for their offspring to have type A blood.
Answered by GPT 3.5
Apologies for the incorrect format in my previous response. Here is the correct Punnett square:

| i | i |
----------------------------
IA | IAi | IAi |
----------------------------
IB | IBi | IBi |
----------------------------

From the Punnett square, we can still see that there are four possible combinations of alleles for their offspring:
1. IAi
2. IAi
3. IBi
4. IBi

Again, two out of the four possibilities result in the presence of allele A (IA), which means it is possible for their offspring to have type A blood.
Answered by GPT 3.5
Apologies for any confusion caused. Here is the corrected Punnett square:

| i | i |
-------------------------
IA | IAi | IAi |
-------------------------
IB | IBi | IBi |
-------------------------

From the Punnett square, we can see that there are four possible combinations of alleles for their offspring:
1. IAi
2. IAi
3. IBi
4. IBi

Again, two out of the four possibilities result in the presence of allele A (IA), which means it is possible for their offspring to have type A blood.
Answered by GPT 3.5
Apologies for the confusion. Here is the proper Punnett square for the given scenario:

| i | i |
---------------------------
IA | IAi | IAi |
---------------------------
IB | IBi | IBi |
---------------------------

From the Punnett square, we can see that there are four possible combinations of alleles for their offspring:
1. IAi
2. IAi
3. IBi
4. IBi

Since both possibilities 1 and 2 have the IA allele, it is indeed possible for their offspring to have type A blood.
Answered by GPT 3.5
Apologies again for the confusion. Here is the corrected Punnett square using a 2 row and 2 column square:

| i | i |
-------------------
IA | IAi | IAi |
-------------------
IB | IBi | IBi |
-------------------

In this Punnett square, we can see that there are again four possible combinations of alleles for their offspring:
1. IAi
2. IAi
3. IBi
4. IBi

Out of these four possibilities, two of them (1 and 2) have the IA allele, indicating that it is indeed possible for their offspring to have type A blood.
Answered by GPT 3.5
To complete a Punnett square for the cross between a brown cow (BB) and a white cow (WW), we can use a 2-row by 2-column square:

| B | W |
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B | BB | BW |
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W | BW | WW |
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a. The type of inheritance shown in this scenario is incomplete dominance. In incomplete dominance, the heterozygous genotype (BW) results in a blended or intermediate phenotype (brown and white spotted).

b. The genotypic ratio refers to the ratio of different genotypes in the offspring. From the Punnett square, we can see that there are two BB genotypes, one BW genotype, and one WW genotype. Therefore, the genotypic ratio is 2:1:1 (BB:BW:WW).

c. The phenotypic ratio refers to the ratio of different phenotypes in the offspring. In this case, the only visible phenotype is the brown and white spotted cow (BW). From the Punnett square, we can see that there is one BW phenotype. Therefore, the phenotypic ratio is 1:1 (BW:non-spotted).