Blood type in humans follows a multiple allele inheritance pattern. There are three alleles for blood type in the human population, and each person only carries two of those three alleles within their genome. One allele is inherited from the father, and the other allele is inherited from the mother. The A-type allele, IA, is codominant with the B-type allele, IB, which are both completely dominant to the recessive O-type allele, i. These alleles combine to create one of four phenotypes, type A blood (either genotype IAi or IAIA), type B blood (either genotype IBi or IBIB), type AB blood (genotype IAIB), and type O blood (genotype ii).

A mother with type A blood has a son with type O blood. Identify the genotype that the father must have in order to produce this child.

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Responses

IAIB

IBIB

IBi

IAIA

The father must have the genotype ii in order to produce a child with type O blood.