12.2.2 Reading (w/o The Mark Recapture Method)

1. Difficult -
I didn't find this section that difficult, but I do have a "what if" question about the "Application from Genetics". I was wondering if there was a way to find the probabilities without doing the chart and getting every single outcome? (As in, could we assume what the possible outcomes are just by looking at cC and cC... that could make CC, Cc, or cc. Could we find the probability of each without knowing that there are exactly 2 possible offspring that could have Cc, and one each for CC and cc? Could we find them if we know the all types of possible outcomes but not how many of each for example if we had a ridiculous number of allele types?)
2. Reflective -
I thought this section was very interesting because the way it went about explaining probabilities as k/n and as a series of steps was WAY more understandable than my old trigonometry book back in high school (which strangely enough might have been made by the same manufacterer as this book... it too had a lot of blue in the pages as well as a timeline of Mathematician's lives in the front cover...).