Mendel's Fore!ay Mystery Cache
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Don't make Gregor Mendel turn in his grave: solve the ratio of the dihybrid cross to locate the cache!
Born in 1822, Gregor Mendel became an Augustinian monk and ironically, following his failure to acquire a teaching degree in science and mathematics, he is now referred to as the "Father of Genetics".
In this cache you will need to use Mendel's methods to determine the cache location:
S35 14.(a+b+c+d)(a+b+c)(d)
E149 05.(a+b)(b)(d)
Dimples and Freckles are both dominant traits. A person who is heterozygous for freckles and heterozygous for dimples mates with a person who is homozygous recessive for freckles and heterozygous for dimples.
Express the possible offspring of this mating as a ratio cancelled down to the lowest common number. Use the ratio as a:b:c:d where -
a = freckles and dimples both present
b = freckles present and dimples absent
c = freckles absent and dimples present
d = freckles and dimples both absent
FTF: SecretSquirrel-BJC
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[puzzle] r-znvy zr sbe uryc
[cache] zraqry jnfa'g fghzcrq
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