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. In a species of beetles, individuals may be red, black, white or tan. Colour is controlled by a single gene with multiple alleles in a dominance series. Red (R) is dominant to black (Rb), black is dominant to white (Rw) and white is dominant to tan (r) (R > Rb > Rw > r).
Colour variation in this species is a female sex-limited trait. Males carry the colour genes but are always phenotypically tan regardless of their genotype.
What are the genotypes of the parents of the following cross?  
 
tan female × tan male produces 78 red females: 70 white females: 184 tan males

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