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In summer squash, fruit colour is controlled by two genes, A A\,A and BBB, which assort independently on different autosomes. The dominant allele A A\,A results in white fruit, masking the expression of the B B\,B gene (dominant epistasis). In homozygous recessive aa aa\,aa individuals, the dominant allele B B\,B produces yellow fruit, while the homozygous recessive genotype aabb aabb\,aabb produces green fruit.

A geneticist crosses two double heterozygous (AaBbAaBbAaBb) plants and obtains a total of 480 offspring in the F2 F_2\,F2​ generation. Assuming the offspring phenotypes perfectly fit the expected ratio for dominant epistasis, how many of these offspring are expected to have yellow fruit?

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