Again, determine the genotypes of the parents first. The racoon parents have the same phenotype and therefore the same genotype. Medium sized tail bands and washing food some of the times are both heterozygous traits. What would that make the genotypes of the parent racoons?

Now that you have the genotypes of the parents, perform a punnett square to determine what the F₁ offspring would be (remember to place the gametes of one parent across the top and the gametes of the other parent down the left side. It does not matter which parent's gametes are placed across the top and which are placed down the side.):

Your punnett square should look similar to the one below. If it does not, review the material on gamete formation and how to set up the punnett square and try again.

	BW	Bw	bW	bw
BW	BBWW	BBWw	BbWW	BbWw
Bw	BBWw	BBww	BbWw	Bbww
bW	BbWW	BbWw	bbWW	bbWw
bw	BbWw	Bbww	bbWw	bbww

Count up how many of the 16 possible offspring in the square have the different genotypes and phenotypes.

Now return to the question page and select the correct answers.