1 A) How does epistasis differ from Mendel’s principle ofdominance?
1 B) A woman who owned a purebred albino poodle (an autosomalrecessive phenotype) wanted white puppies; so she took the dog to abreeder, who said he would mate the female with an albino studmale, also from a pure stock. When six puppies were born, all ofthem were black; so the woman sued the breeder, claiming that hereplaced the stud male with a black dog, giving her six unwantedpuppies. You are called in as an expert witness, and the defenseasks you if it is possible to produce black offspring from twopure-breeding recessive albino parents. What testimony do yougive?
