Chapter 21.3, Problem 26AQP

Summary Introduction

To determine:

The phenotype in the progeny when the ${\text{F}}_{\text{1}}$ individual in the given figure is crossed with the plant with genotype $B-I$$B-I$.

Introduction:

Parmutation is the interaction between two alleles that causes an epigenetic change in the expression of one of the alleles. These paramutagenic changes often caused due to the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) methylation and histone modification. Paramutation was first observed by Bateson and  Caroline Pellew in the corn plant. The phenotype is an observable, physical characteristic in an individual which is expressed by a set of genotypeinclude all visible characteristics such as color, shape, height, and so on.