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You are a zoo keeper studying the African meerkat population at the zoo. You have identified a meerkat family with a mother who has stripes on her back, and a father who has the recessive phenotype, no stripes. Half of their children have stripes and half do not. You are interested in figuring out which gene is responsible for the striped pattern. To do this you test the SNP profile of all of your animals. Here are some representative results. Animal Mom Dad Child1 Stripes Yes No Yes SNP1 C/T T/TC/T SNP2 A/G A/AA/A Child 2 Child3 Child Child5 Child Child 7 Yes No No No Yes No T/T T/T C/T C/T C/T C/T A/A G/A G/A A/A A/A G/A Child Child No Yes T/T C/T G/A A/A Child 10 Yes T/T Α/Α