
Justin R. answered 02/16/23
AYA Life Science Certified; High School Biology Teacher
We would assume in this scenario that the dominant trait is straight hair, since the offspring are 100% straight hair.
We will assign alleles to each trait.
A = Straight Hair
a = Curly Hair
Since the mother has curly hair, her genotype must be (aa). The father could be (AA) or (Aa), but since we know the children are 100% straight hair, the father would be (AA)
In a cross between (aa) x (AA), the result would be 100% heterozygous, straight-haired, children.
Based on the limited information from this question, this would be a complete dominance question.