Humans carry two alleles for earlobe shape E for freehanging
Humans carry two alleles for earlobe shape: E for free-hanging earlobes and e for attached earlobes. Considering that free-hanging earlobes are dominant to attached earlobes, please draw a Punnett Square in the space below crossing a heterozygous individual with free-hanging earlobes with an individual with attached earlobes and include what the percentage of the offspring is homozygous dominant, homozygous recessive, heterozygous, attached earlobes and free-hanging earlobes.
Solution
E : free-hanging earlobes (Dominant) e: attached earlobes (Recessive)
heterozygous individual x homozygous individual
Ee x ee
percentage of the offspring
1) homozygous dominant : 0
2) homozygous recessive (ee) : 50%
3) heterozygous (Ee): 50 %
percentage of the offspring with attached earlobes (ee) : 50%
percentage of the offspring with free-hanging earlobes (Ee) : 50%
| E | e | |
| e | Ee | ee |
| e | Ee | ee |
