Black hair guinea pigs is dominant and white recessive.Several black of same genotype were mared and produce 29 black and 9 white offspring. What would you predict the genotypes of the parents to be?

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Dec 9, 2015

since the ratio is nearly 3:1 then this means that parents were heterozygous for the trait. They won't have the recessive form while they are both not showing the feature unless they are both heterozygous, which is confirmed by the ration.