You are going to clone a hamster named Fluffy. Although you use the same type of hamster for the egg cell donor and the surrogate mother, they are different colors than Fluffy. Fluffy is a tan colored hamster, but after going through the cloning process, Fluffy's "clone" is born and is a dark brown color. Explain an error you could have made in the cloning process that would cause this clone to be dark brown instead of tan.

"It is the exchange of genetic material between different organisms which leads to production of offspring with combinations of traits."
The traits is different from that of their parents. This leads to variation.
As we know that traits are carried from parents to offspring through genes.
The alternative forms of genes are called alleles.
The genes which are tightly linked show less recombination whereas the genes that are loosely linked will show higher recombination.
During meiosis the allele pair gets separated and has an equal chances to be passed on to an offspring.
It is possible that a trait which is not expressed in parents can be passed and expressed in an offspring.

For example: Lets assume that tan color is dominant (T) over brown color (t). If a tan color fluffy having genotype Tt is cloned i.e., crossed with Tt, it will produce the offspring having genotype TT, Tt, Tt and tt.

TT, Tt and Tt will produce tanned progeny whereas tt will produce brown progeny.

Hence, genetic recombination will leads to variation which could be responsible for the error made in the cloning process that would cause this clone to be dark brown instead of tan.

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