SOLUTION: genetic monohybrid problem: If a brown-eyed woman marries a blue-eyed man and they have ten children, all brown-eyed, can you be certain that the woman is homozygous? If the eleve

Question 133031: genetic monohybrid problem:
If a brown-eyed woman marries a blue-eyed man and they have ten children, all brown-eyed, can you be certain that the woman is homozygous? If the eleventh child has brown eyes, will that prove what the mother's genotype is?
Answer by Nate(3500) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If brown eyes are recessive, she would be homozygous, and her husband would be hetero with a blue allele and a brown.
If brown eyes are dominant, she could be either homo- or hetero- zygous. Her spouse would have no brown eyed gene. Hetero- is a possibility because the association of genes is random; however, homozygous be a better choice.
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