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In a breed of dog , the allele for long legs is dominant to the allele for short legs.

a) Choose suitable letters to represent these two alleles.

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L is allele for long leg and l is for short legs. So LL is homozygous long legs, Ll is heterozygous long legs and ll is for short legs.

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