Question

Imagine that spot number and color in ladybird beetles (ladybugs) are affected by variation at two unlinked genes. One gene determines whether the beetles are red or yellow. The second gene determines whether they have 2 spots or 10 spots.
Imagine that you manage to catch two such beetles, one with red wings with 10 spots, and the other with red wings with 2 spots. You allow these beetles to mate and observe that, among the 80 offspring, 60 have red wings with 2 spots and 20 have yellow wings with 2 spots. Which alleles at the two genes are MOST LIKELY to

Answer 1

Answer:

The spots on the back of Ladybugs over the surface is defense mechanism to avoid predators. The spots come in different shapes and different numbers. Some say that those dots tell us their age. Since some ladybugs have 24 spots which means its age would be 24 years and that is not at all possible.