Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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ISBN: 9781259700903
Author: Leland Hartwell Dr., Michael L. Goldberg Professor Dr., Janice Fischer, Leroy Hood Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 3, Problem 3P
The Aa heterozygous snapdragons in Fig. 3.3 are pink, while AA homozygotes are red. However, Mendel’s Pp heterozygous pea flowers were every bit as purple as those of PP homozygotes (Fig. 2.8). Assuming that the A allele and the P allele specify functional enzymes, and the a and p alleles specify no protein at all, explain why the alleles of gene A and the alleles of gene P interact so differently.
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Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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