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Homozygous dominant creatures mate. Note how each parent segregates their alleles to make their gametes.
Because each parent is homozygous, only one type of gamete is produced.
2 homozygous recessive creatures mate.
When a homozygous dominant creature mates with a hybrid creature.
Note how the heterozygous father produced two different types of gamete.
When a homozygous recessive creature mates with a hybrid creature.
Note how the heterozygous father produced two different types of gamete.
When 2 hybrid creatures mate.
Note how both heterozygous parents each produce 2 different kinds of gametes.
Reginald Crundall Punnett is the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring.
2 hybrid genes!
3 hybrid genes!