What is the expected outcome when mating a normal (full) color rabbit with a grey rabbit, if grey is recessive?

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In this scenario, we are considering a cross between a rabbit exhibiting the dominant trait of full color and a grey rabbit, which has the recessive trait. Since grey is recessive, the grey rabbit must have two alleles for the grey color (let's denote this as "gg"). The full color rabbit, being homozygous dominant (let's denote this as "FF") or heterozygous (let's denote it as "Ff") could produce offspring that may either inherit full color traits or grey traits.

If we assume the full-colored rabbit is homozygous dominant (FF), all offspring from the cross (FF x gg) would inherit one allele from each parent. Thus, every offspring will receive one F allele from the full color parent and one g allele from the grey parent, resulting in a genotype of Fg for each rabbit. This would yield 100% full color rabbits, as the presence of just one dominant allele (F) is sufficient to express the full color phenotype.

If the full color rabbit were heterozygous (Ff), the offspring could be produced in a ratio of 1:1 (50% Fg, which are full color, and 50% gg, which are grey

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