A short-haired cat has a litter of kittens. Some of the kittens have long hair and some have short. Which of the following statements best explains why some kittens look different from their mother?

they might get their long hair from their father's genes. They might also have long hair phenomenally.

Although the mother may look shorthaired, she may be carrying a hidden, or recessive, longhaired mutation. So if she mates with a longhaired tom, half the kittens will be longhaired. Or if she mates with a shorthaired tom carrying the same hidden longhaired gene, one in four kittens will be longhaired.

It can be due to the genetic factors. The hereditical characteristics of the male cat was different from the female cat. The above situation can occur

it's c. (to reduce the greenhouse effect/carbon gasses)

a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.