You get two chicks from a friend who has a flock of chickens that lay an assortment of different colored eggs. You want blue eggs. Your friend says that one hatched from a blue egg, but she is not sure about the other. It turns out that the one that hatched from the blue egg is a male rooster. The other rooster is a hen but when she grows up she lays light brown eggs. You are dissappointed.
You let your chickes breed and keep the babies. In this second generation ALL of the hens lay green eggs. You decide that the green is interesting and increase your flock by letting this generation mate with eachother. To your surprise, the next generation produces hens in which 9/16th laid green eggs, 3/16th laid brown eggs, 1/8 pale blue eggs, 1/16th bright blue eggs, and 1/16th laid white eggs. Explain all of these colors using genetic terms. Use letter that have different upper case and lower case letters such as A, B, D, E for your gene names and genotypes. Give a genotype and an explanation for each of the following:
Brown egg laying hens:
Green egg laying hens:
Bright blue egg laying hens:
Light blue egg laying hens:
White egg laying hens:
You get two chicks from a friend who has a flock of chickens that lay an assortment of different colored eggs. You want blue eggs. Your friend says that one hatched from a blue egg, but she is not sure about the other. It turns out that the one that hatched from the blue egg is a male rooster. The other rooster is a hen but when she grows up she lays light brown eggs. You are dissappointed.
You let your chickes breed and keep the babies. In this second generation ALL of the hens lay green eggs. You decide that the green is interesting and increase your flock by letting this generation mate with eachother. To your surprise, the next generation produces hens in which 9/16th laid green eggs, 3/16th laid brown eggs, 1/8 pale blue eggs, 1/16th bright blue eggs, and 1/16th laid white eggs. Explain all of these colors using genetic terms. Use letter that have different upper case and lower case letters such as A, B, D, E for your gene names and genotypes. Give a genotype and an explanation for each of the following:
Brown egg laying hens:
Green egg laying hens:
Bright blue egg laying hens:
Light blue egg laying hens:
White egg laying hens:
