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What is the Punnett square used for?
What is the Punnett square used for?
- Predicting the genotypes of offspring in a breeding experiment (correct)
- Tabular summary of maternal and paternal alleles
- Determining the phenotype of offspring in a breeding experiment
- Visual representation of polygenic inheritance
When is a pair of alleles considered homozygous?
When is a pair of alleles considered homozygous?
- When they code for the same trait and are either both dominant or both recessive (correct)
- When they code for the same trait and are one dominant and one recessive
- When they code for different traits and are both recessive
- When they code for different traits and are both dominant
What does the Punnett square visually represent?
What does the Punnett square visually represent?
- Mendelian inheritance (correct)
- Epigenetics
- Zygosity
- Polygenic inheritance