The height of a rabbit's ears is a polygenic trait.In one variety of rabbit, the ear length was 3inches and in another variety of rabbit it was 11inches. Rabbits pure for the trait of short ears (3inches) were mated with those pure for the traitfor long ears (11 inches), yielding an F1 ofintermediate ear length of 7 inches. The F1 weremated to each other and produced an F2population, in which the 3 inch and 11 inchappeared in a frequency of 1/256. How manyinches does each allele contribute to the lengthof the rabbit ear?

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