A cat is blinded in one eye in a fight. When the cat later sexually reproduces with another cat, how will the blindness affect the offspring
Biology · High School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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The blindness will not affect the offspring since the parent cat did not inherit the blindness from it parents either. The blindness in its one eye is due to a fight, and not because of hereditary or genetics, therefore, the offspring of the cat will not be blind. Not unless if the other parent or the partner of the blind cat has a hereditary trait of being blind, in that case, there is a change for the offspring to be blind as well. Earned attributes cannot be passed down as a hereditary trait, since it is not transcribed in the organisms DNA.