1. It's a very well known fact that most dragons do not breathe fire, and it's also well known that alleles thatenable fire breathing are recessive to the wild-type Sweet Breath phenotype. However, it's unclear howmany different genes when mutated cause the fire breathing phenotype. To answer this question you usefour different strains of dragon and perform a series of crosses. Your strains are the Hungarian Horntail(Strain A), the Norwegian Ridgeback (Strain B), the Romanian Longhorn (Strain C), and the SwedishShortsnout (Strain D). All strains are true breeding for a single homozygous recessive mutation that allowsthem to breathe fire.Cross #1 Hungarian Horntail (A) X Norwegian Ridgeback (B) = F1: All Sweet BreathCross #2 Romanian Longhorn (C) X Swedish Shortsnout (D) = F1: All Sweet BreathCross #3 Swedish Shortsnout (D) X Norwegian Ridgeback (B) = F1: All FirebreathingCross #4 Romanian Longhorn (C) X Hungarian Horntail (A) = F1: All FirebreathingHow many genes are involved in creating a firebreathing phenotype?Group the dragons (A, B, C, and D) as to which contain mutations in the different genes.

Complementation test is used in this case to find the number of genes.

Answered: 1. It's a very well known fact that…

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