'What are the chances of an offspring being homozygous recessive for a trait if they have two heterozygous parents? 1/4 1/2 3/4 D'
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We know that they are both heterozygous, which means they have one dominant allele and one recessive allele for the trait. We can represent this as: Parent 1: Aa Parent 2: Aa Show more…
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