Assuming that fur colour of an animal ranges from dark, intermediates shades, to white. A cross is made betwee

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Assuming that fur colour of an animal ranges from dark, intermediates shades, to white. A cross is made between a male (AABBCC) with dark fur colour and a female (aabbcc) with white fur colour. What would be the fur colour of F1 generation?

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This scenario describes polygenic inheritance, where a trait is controlled by three or more genes and the effect of each allele is additive.  a cross between a homozygous dominant individual (AABBCC - darkest) and a homozygous recessive individual (aabbcc - lightest) produces F1 offspring with the genotype AaBbCc. This genotype contains three dominant alleles and three recessive alleles, resulting in an intermediate phenotype .

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