you are a zoo keeper studying the african meerkat population at the zoo. you have identified a meerkat family with a mother who has stripes on her back, and a father who has the recessive phenotype, no stripes. half of their children have stripes and half do not. you are interested in figuring out which gene is responsible for the striped pattern. to do this you, test the single-nucleotide polymorphism (snp) profile of all of your animals. here are some representative results.
Animal Mom Dad Child1 Child 2 Child3 Child4 Child5 Child6 Child 7 Child8 Child9 Child 10
Stripes Yes No Yes Yes No No No Yes No No Yes Yes
SNP1 C/T T/T C/T T/T T/T C/T C/T C/T C/T T/T C/T T/T
SNP2 A/G A/A A/A A/A G/A G/A A/A A/A G/A G/A A/A Α/Α