Coat Color Genetics

Question 1

DNA is read in triplets which are what?

Answer 1

amino acid

Question 2

genetics are the instructions for __?

Answer 2

life

Question 3

sum of all the DNA on one set of chromosomes?

Answer 3

genome

Question 4

a horse gets ____ autosomes from each parent?

Answer 4

31

Question 5

a horse has a total of ___ chromosomes and ______ baseS?

Answer 5

64; 2.7 billion

Question 6

one of the pair of genes?

Answer 6

allele

Question 7

two differing copies of genes?

Answer 7

heterozygote

Question 8

two matching copies of genes?

Answer 8

homozygote

Question 9

what the DNA says?

Answer 9

genotype

Question 10

the physical effect of that DNA message?

Answer 10

phenotype

Question 11

traits under positive selection?

Answer 11

over, silver, gray, dominant white, leopard complex,

Question 12

the chestnut gene?

Answer 12

MC1R; ee

Question 13

black gene?

Answer 13

aa

Question 14

the agouti signaling protein is what?

Answer 14

an antagonist of a-MSH that control the switch from black and red

Question 15

the silver or chocolate gene is ___ and has no effect on what other gene?

Answer 15

dominant, ee gene

Question 16

the silver gene is common in what?

Answer 16

RMH and shetlands

Question 17

what is a common occurence with the silver horseS?

Answer 17

MCOA (eyes)

Question 18

the champagne gene is only in what breeds?

Answer 18

North American