You observe that your cat sprawls on the cool tile floor in the kitchen on hot summer days and curls up in front of a heating vent in the winter. this suggests that a)cats have trouble thermoregulating b)something is wrong with the cat's hypothalamus c)behavior can play a role in homeostasis d)cats know how to find the most comfortable place in a house.

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?