If Anahita has brown eyes (a dominant trait), but her mother has blue eyes (a recessive trait) and her father has brown eyes, then it is likely that Anahita’s genotype for eye color is ______.

a. homozygous
b. recessive
c. homologous
d. heterozygous


d. heterozygous

If Anahita has brown eyes (a dominant trait), but her mother has blue eyes (a recessive trait) and her father has brown eyes, then it is likely that Anahita’s genotype for eye color is heterozygous.

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