Chapter 5.1, Problem 15AQP

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The probability of a child having long war lobes, when a heterozygous (for long ear lobes) male mates with a homozygous (for normal ear lobes) female.

Introduction:

A heterozygous individual is the one who has different allele for a gene. Whereas homozygous is an individual having same allele of a particular gene. An allele can be dominant or recessive. Therefore, homozygous condition is always dominant and heterozygous condition may be recessive or dominant.