Question 2

(Multiple Choice)

You are studying body color in an African spider and have found that it is controlled by a single gene with four alleles: B (brown), br (red), bg (green), and by (yellow). B is dominant to all the other alleles, and by is recessive to all the other alleles. The bg allele is dominant to by but recessive to br. You cross a pure-breeding brown spider with a pure-breeding green spider.
-Predict the phenotype of the progeny.


A) half brown, half green
B) three-fourths brown, one-fourth green
C) all brown
D) all green
E) all yellow

Answer

C