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BIOLOGY HELP

In horses, the allele for straight hair (H) is dominant, and the allele for curly hair (h) is recessive.
A horse breeder mates a homozygous dominant mother with a heterozygous male.
What is the chance that the offspring will have straight hair?

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100%

Step-by-step explanation:

The probability is shown by the punnet square below. While the genotype of 50% of the offspring may be heterozygous, since the allele for straight hair is dominant over that of curly hair, their phenotypes too will be of straight hair similar to the homozygous dominant offspring.

BIOLOGY HELP In horses, the allele for straight hair (H) is dominant, and the allele-example-1
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