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 5, Problem 47P
A single yeast cell placed on a solid agar will divide mitotically to produce a colony of about 10 cells. A haploid yeast cell that has a mutation in the ade2 gene will produce a red colony; an ade2+ colony will be white. Some of the colonies formed from diploid yeast cells with a genotype of ade2+ / ade2− will contain sectors of red within a white colony.
| a. | How would you explain these sectors? |
| b. | Although the white colonies are roughly the same size, the red sectors within |
| some of the white colonies vary markedly in size. Why? Do you expect the | |
| majority of the red sectors to be relatively large or relatively small? |
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