A Male Rooster and Female Chicken Feathers Color Mating Outcome

Explanation:

Feather color inheritance in chickens: Feather color in chickens is a codominant trait, meaning that both alleles for black feathers and tan feathers are expressed in the offspring.

When a male rooster with black feathers is mated with a female chicken with tan feathers, the offspring will inherit one allele for black feathers and one allele for tan feathers. This results in the offspring having a phenotype that shows both colors in their feathers, creating a dark brown color.

If we represent the allele for black feathers as B and the allele for tan feathers as T, the possible genotypes and phenotypes of the offspring would be as follows:

• BB - black feathers
• BT - dark brown feathers
• TT - tan feathers

This means that the offspring of the male rooster with black feathers and the female chicken with tan feathers would have a mix of tan and black feathers due to the codominant nature of the trait.