What scientific discovery spurred the rapid advancements in the fields of genetics?

Coat color in cats is determined by genes at several different loci. at one locus on the x chromosome, one allele (x ) encodes black fur and another allele (xo) encodes orange fur. females can be black (x x ), orange (xoxo), or a mixture of orange and black called tortoiseshell (x xo). males are either black (x y) or orange (xoy). bill has a female tortoiseshell cat named patches. one night, patches escapes from bill\'s house, spends the night out, and mates with a stray male. patches later gives birth to the following kittens: one orange male, one black male, two tortoiseshell females, and one orange female. what are the genotypes of patches, the stray male, and the kittens?

The source of energy shown in the image is (renewable, non renewable, polluting) a drawback of building a dam is that (it will destroy ecosystems, it requires fossil fuels, it won’t be useful for irrigation)

Fossils of ancestors of the modern horses show a small 4-toed almost dog-like browsing animal named eohippus over time the horses got larger lost toes and changed to a grazing diet what is the best explanation of why this change occurred