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Human skin colour is polygenic trait wit...

Human skin colour is polygenic trait with each dominant determing a part of melanin deposition while the recessive are coding for no melanin. If a very dark skinned person marries a very light skinned women, the chances of a very dark skinned offspring are

A

0

B

`1//4 `

C

`5//8`

D

`9//64`

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A
This is because the two alleles show incomplete dominance thus `F_1` progeny shows blended inheritance not that of parental type.
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