Answer to Question #167384 in Genetics for mobina

Question

an alien race called the zeebs has three skin tones: purple, yellow, and purple with yellow spots.

what type of inheritance is this?

show the result of a cross ( punnet square) between a purple and a yellow zeeb

Answer 1

This type of inheritance is an example of codominance.

When the purple Zeeb (PP) is crossed with the yellow Zeeb (YY) the genotype of the progeny will be PY and the phenotype will be purple with yellow spots, as both the genes are equally expressed.