Assuming Independent Assortment, What Proportion of the Offspring of the Cross

question 37

Short Answer

Assuming independent assortment, what proportion of the offspring of the cross $A a B b C c D d \times A a b b C C d d$ will have the aabbccdd genotype?

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Definitions:

P(A ∪ B)

Represents the probability of the occurrence of at least one of two events, A or B, including the case where both events occur simultaneously.

P(A ∩ B)

The probability that events A and B both occur, also known as the intersection of A and B.

Venn Diagram

A graphical representation for showing symbolically the sample space and operations involving events in which the sample space is represented by a rectangle and events are represented as circles within the sample space.

Conditional Probability (P(B))

The probability of an event (B) occurring given that another event (A) has already occurred.