Asked by john

There are genes that govern the eye color of mice, too. Suppose that a true-breeding mouse with red eyes is crossed with a true-breeding mouse with black eyes. All of the offspring mice have black eyes. What can you conclude?

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Because the parents are true-breeding (homozygous) and all F1 offspring show the black phenotype, the black allele must be dominant to the red allele.
For example, if red = rr and black = RR, the cross RR × rr gives all Rr offspring, which are black in phenotype. Thus red is recessive and the F1s are heterozygous showing black eyes.