The American curl is a breed of cat that has curly ears. The allele for curly ears is dominant. Suppose a male cat with the heterozygous genotype is bred to a female cat with the homozygous recessive genotype. Predict the number of kittens that will have the phenotype for curly ears. In your answer:

Question

define the word phenotype
write the genotypes for both parents; draw a punnett square that shows a cross between the two cats (1)
write the phenotypic ration of the offspring. If the cross produces six kittens, predict how many of them will have the curly ear phototype.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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