What is the probability of a homozygous recessive individual (ss) producing a gamete with a dominant allele (S) ?

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Andreas Keith

Biology

2 August, 13:04

What is the probability of a homozygous recessive individual (ss) producing a gamete with a dominant allele (S) ?

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Donald Bailey · Answer 1

That would be 0%. An organism with a genotype of (ss) can only produce the s allele within their gametes. So the probability of their gametes containing an s allele would be 100%, while the S allele would be 0%.