A man with blood group A marries a woman with blood group O and their daughter has blood group

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A man with blood group A marries a woman with blood group O and their daughter has blood group O. Is this information enough to tell you which of the traits blood group A or O is dominant? Why or why not?

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answered Mar 8, 2018 by mdsamim (213,225 points) 5 10 15
selected Mar 9, 2018 by shabnam praween
 
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The information is insufficient to tell whether the trait - ‘A’ or ‘O’ is dominant. In case I let us assume that trait ‘A’ is dominant. Then father may have IAIA or IAIO and mother IOIO.

In this case, 50 per cent of the progeny will have blood group A and 50 percent of the progeny will have blood group O, when father’s blood group is A and mother’s is O.
In case II, let us assume that trait ‘O’ is dominant.
In this case also, we see that child may have blood group O
.Since, in both the assumptions the child can have blood group O, so we cannot establish which trait is dominant.

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