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What will be the phenotype and genotype of a daughter born to bald mother and non-bald father?

What will be the phenotype and genotype of a daughter born to bald mother and non-bald father? Correct Answer b/b+ non-bald

Baldness is a dominant gene for a male. A bald mother is thus homozygous for the allele; at least one baldness gene will thus pass to offspring from her. The father is normal so he must lack any baldness allele and a normal gene will pass from him. Hence daughter is a heterozygote and normal.

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