In Horses, There Are Four Alleles at the a Locus

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Short Answer

In horses, there are four alleles at the A locus. Arranged in dominance sequence, they are: A (wild) a ^b (bay) a ^c (brown) a ^d (black) If you bred several bay mares whose sires were brown to a brown stallion whose sire was black, what type of offspring would be produced and in what proportion?

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