INTRODUCTION
SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Which of the following would make a good PROBLEM?
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How many students in our science class have blue eyes?
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15 students have blue eyes.
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Every dog in the whole universe has blue eyes.
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Yes. The short answer is that brown-eyed parents can have kids with brown, blue or virtually any other color eyes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Likewise, two brown-eyed parents can have a child with blue eyes, although this is also uncommon.
Detailed explanation-3: -The woman is blue-eyed will have genotypes bb. Thus the possible genotypes of their offsprings will be: Bb and bb.
Detailed explanation-4: -Brown eye colour is dominant over blue eye colour. Therefore, for the brown-eyed parents having blue-eyed child, the possibility is that both have heterozygous genotype i.e. Bb. Therefore, from the square below, it is clear that there is a 25% possibility of blue-eyed (bb) child.
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