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Explanation:
irst, you need to understand what comes with sex-linked traits. Like how they are transmitted into progenies from parents. So we are talking about the XX or XY in usual cases and then we have to consider about dominance, co-dominance or incomplete dominance. From your problem, it appears that you are dealing with single-gene inheritance. You should be able to do Mendelian hybrid crosses to have a sense of what is going on.
Let me know what you found out about these topics I raised so we can proceed with proper hypothesis.
Hypothesis is an explanation for certain phenomenon that we need to be able to disprove. In essence, our hypothesis should be worded in a way we are disproving that floppiness is sex-linked, which will bring us into autosomal inheritance or even perhaps with multi-factorial inheritance.
It would be something like if floppy/straight ear phenotype is sex-linked, then no floppiness in the F1 and F2 progenies will be observed if both the mother and father rabbits have no mutations in the sex-chromosomes.
This translate to: mutations in the sex chromosomes (genes) will appear if .... (conditions for single gene x-linked factor; both x-linked dominant and x-linked recessive) are met and there will be no appearance of floppiness of ears if neither the mother or the father has mutated sex chromosome related to floppiness of the ears.
