Male chickens carry two Z sex chromosomes, while female chickens carry one Z sex chromosome and one W sex chromosome. Located on the Z chromosome is a gene for barring. Barred feathers have black and white stripes. The barred trait is dominant to the unbarred trait.

Chickens have a fleshy growth on top of the head called a comb. An autosomal trait called rose comb is dominant to a trait called single comb.

An unbarred male heterozygous for the rose-comb trait is crossed with a barred female with a single comb. What proportion of the resulting progeny are expected to be barred males with single combs? Give your answer as a fraction or as a decimal to the nearest hundredth.

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Answer:

1/4 or 0.25

Explanation:

Given in the question,

Genotype for male chicken ZZ

Genotype for female chicken ZW

phenotype       genotype

Barred trait           B

Unbarred trait       b

rose comb            C

single comb          c

male [tex]Z^{bc} Z^{bC}[/tex]

female [tex]Z^{Bc}W^{c}[/tex]

The proportion of the resulting progeny which is expected to be barred males with single combs is 1/4 or 0.25

                     Z^{Bc}                     W^{c}              

 Z^{bc}          Z^{bc} Z^{Bc}     Z^{bc}W^{c}            

Z^{bC}          Z^{bC} Z^{Bc}     Z^{bC}W^{c}