Please answer all of 1 The author Ernest Hemingway was famou

The author Ernest Hemingway was famous for his love of cats and as many as 60 cats lived with him at his house at Key West, Florida. His cats were also famous for having six toes. A normal five-toed stray male mated with the six-toed female cats. The resulting litters of kitten consisted largely or entirely of six-toed cats. What does this suggest to you about the genetic basis of polydactyly (extra toes) in cats? Use appropriate genetic symbols and give the genotype of the stray, five-toed male. If the stray male mated with a six-toed female that is heterozygous for polydactyly, what is the probability of: a polydactyly kitten a normal five-toed male kitten

Solution

If a normal five toe male is mated with the six toe female and resulting offisprings are mostly have six toed cats, it means that the gene responsible for the polydactyly is dominent over the recessive gene which is responsible for the five toed cat. If F is the gene responsible for the toe quantity in cat, the genetically, genotype of stray, five toed cat should be ff. ff is because of the reason that five toe character is recessive gene. The probability of a polydactylous kitten is only 50% because female is heterozygous for the polydactyly and the male is recessive. The probability of a normal five toed male kitten is almost 50%.