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

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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) About Me  (Show Source):
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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.