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Normal hearing in humans depends upon the presence of at least one dominant gene

ID: 57503 • Letter: N

Question

Normal hearing in humans depends upon the presence of at least one dominant gene from each of two pairs, D and E. If you examined the collective progeny of many DdEe X DdEe marriages, what phenotypic ratio would you expect? Normal hearing in humans depends upon the presence of at least one dominant gene from each of two pairs, D and E. If you examined the collective progeny of many DdEe X DdEe marriages, what phenotypic ratio would you expect? Normal hearing in humans depends upon the presence of at least one dominant gene from each of two pairs, D and E. If you examined the collective progeny of many DdEe X DdEe marriages, what phenotypic ratio would you expect?

Explanation / Answer

DEDE : 1 : DdEe : 2 : dede 1

Thus, the progeny obtained will be in 1:2:1 ratio, exhibiting completely dominant, heterozygous and homozygous recessive traits respectively.

male/female DE de DE DDEE DdEe de DdEe dede