A mouse from a true-breeding population with normal gait was crossed to a mouse displaying an oddgait called dancing. The F1 animals all showednormal gait.a. If dancing is caused by homozygosity for the recessive allele of a single gene, what proportion ofthe F2 mice should be dancers?b. If mice must be homozygous for recessive allelesof each of two different genes to have the dancing phenotype, what proportion of the F2 shouldbe dancers if the two genes are unlinked?(Assume that all the mice in the populationwith normal gait were homozygous fordominant alleles.)c. When the F2 mice were obtained, 42 normal and8 dancers were seen. Use the chi-square test todetermine if these results better fit the one-genemodel from part (a) or the two-gene model frompart (b).

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A mouse from a true-breeding population with normal gait was crossed to a mouse displaying an odd
gait called dancing. The F1 animals all showed
normal gait.
a. If dancing is caused by homozygosity for the recessive allele of a single gene, what proportion of
the F2 mice should be dancers?
b. If mice must be homozygous for recessive alleles
of each of two different genes to have the dancing phenotype, what proportion of the F2 should
be dancers if the two genes are unlinked?
(Assume that all the mice in the population
with normal gait were homozygous for
dominant alleles.)
c. When the F2 mice were obtained, 42 normal and
8 dancers were seen. Use the chi-square test to
determine if these results better fit the one-gene
model from part (a) or the two-gene model from
part (b).

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