Coat color in horses, as described, is an example of Mendelian inheritance. This is because the coat color is determined by specific alleles (E and A) and their interactions, which follows the principles of inheritance originally described by Gregor Mendel. Additionally, while there may be multiple phenotypes influenced by these genes, the basic principles of dominant and recessive alleles apply.
Horses have three basic coat colors: red (or chestnut), bay, and black. All the colors are controlled by the interaction of two genes, Extension (E) and Agouti (A). The following combinations produce bay color: EE/Aa, Ee/Aa, EE/AA, Ee/AA. Only two produce black color: EE/aa, Ea/aa. Other combinations of the alleles of these genes plus mutations of others result in many possible coat colors and patterns in horses.
Coat color in horses is an example of which type of inheritance?
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recessive inheritance
recessive inheritance
Mendelian inheritance
Mendelian inheritance
polygenic inheritance
polygenic inheritance
dominant inheritance
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