In humans, a cleft chin is dominant and no-cleft is recessive. what will the generations look like? assume that mendel's method of crossing two true breeding parents with opposite traits is followed.

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Cunningham

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20 October, 23:47

In humans, a cleft chin is dominant and no-cleft is recessive. what will the generations look like? assume that mendel's method of crossing two true breeding parents with opposite traits is followed.

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Amelia Yu · Answer 1

They would all be heterozygous.

Let's say C = dominant for cleft chin and c = recessive for no cleft chin.

Parent 1 has CC and Parent 2 has cc

If you cross CC and cc, all offspring will be Cc

Which means that they will be heterozygous for a cleft chin.