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In the garden pea, several different genes affect pod characteristics. A gene affecting pod color (green is dominant to yellow) is approximately
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Genetics: Analysis and Principles
- The following pedigree shows the pattern of inheritance of red-green color blindness in a family. Females are shown as circles and males as squares; the squares or circles of individuals affected by the trait are filled in black. What is the chance that a son of the third-generation female indicated by the arrow will be color blind if the father is not color blind? If he is color blind?arrow_forwardIn flies, assume black (B) is dominant and green (b) is recessive for abdomen color, and straight (S) is dominant and bent (s) is recessive for antenna shape. Assume also that these genes are found on the same chromosome. If single mutants for each of these genes (green abdomen x bent antenna) are crossed with one another, and you then testcross the resulting offspring, you get the following numbers of each phenotype: black, straight 17 green, bent 12 black, bent 337 green, straight 364 What is the map distance between B and S? You must show and clearly label ALL workarrow_forwardIn corn, the genes that determine seed color and coat are both located on chromosome 9. Seed color (C) can be colored or colorless, where colored seed is dominant and seed coat (W) can be waxy or unwaxy, where waxy is dominant. A strain that was heterozygous for both genes was crossed with a plant that was homozygous recessive for both genes. The resulting F1 progeny is described below: colored, waxy seed 17 colored, unwaxy 33 uncolored, waxy seed 32 uncolored, unwaxy seed 18 The arrangement of alleles in P generation was?arrow_forward
- In Drosophila, a cross was made between a yellow-bodied male with vestigial wings and a wild-type (WT) female(brown body and normal wings). The F1 generation consisted of WT males and WT females. The F1 males and females were crossed, and the F2 progeny consisted of 16 yellow males with vestigial wings, 48 yellow males with WT wings, 15 brown males with vestigial wings, 49 WT males, 31 brown females with vestigial wings, and 97 WT females. Based on these results, explain the inheritance of the two genes (i.e. autosomal or sex-linked, dominant or recessive).arrow_forwardIn Drosophila, white eyes (w) are recessive to red eyes (w+) at one locus and black body (b) is recessive to gray body (b+). A homozygous white eyes, gray bodied female is crossed with a homozygous red eyes, black bodied male to produce the F1 progeny. The F1 progeny are testcrossed and produce the following progeny: White eyes, black body: 212 White eyes, gray body: 288 Red eyes, black body: 308 Red eyes, gray body: 192 Does the evidence indicate that w and b loci are linked? Explain why or why not? If they are linked, what is the map distance between the two loci? If they are not linked, what is the map distance between the two loci? If they are linked, are the allels in the F1 in coupling or repulsion? How do you know? Draw the genotypes of all individuals described in the problem (original parents, F1, testcross, and F2 progeny) using the appropriate notation.arrow_forwardIn a breed of cattle, rough coat is dominant over smooth, and black coat is codominant to red. What does the statement The loci of the two pair of genes concerned are on different pairs of chromosome.mean?arrow_forward
- The recessive allele s causes Drosophila to have small wings, and the s+ allele causes normal wings. This gene is known to be X linked. If a small-winged male is crossed with a homozygous wild-type female, what ratio of normal to small-winged flies can be expected in each sex in the F1? If F1 flies are intercrossed, what F2 progeny ratios are expected? What progeny ratios are predicted if F1 females are backcrossed with their father?arrow_forwardIn a breed of cattle, rough coat is dominant over smooth coat and black coat is codominant to red. Is the loci of the two pairs of gene concerned on the same chromosome?arrow_forward. In pea plants, seed shape and seed color are controlled by genes located on different chromosomes. Seeds may be round (R) or wrinkled (r), with the allele for round seeds being dominant. Alleles for seed color are yellow and green, with the green allele (y) recessive to the yellow (Y) allele. If you cross an individual that is homozygous round and yellow with an individual that is homozygous for wrinkled and green, what is the genotype of the F1 individuals?arrow_forward
- In a breed of cattle, rough coat is dominant over smooth coat and black coat is codominant to red. What do the following statements mean a) The loci of the two pairs of gene concerned are on the same chromosome b) The loci of the two pairs of gene concerned are on different chromosomesarrow_forwardIn sweet peas, gene C or P alone produces white flowers, the purple colour being due to the presence of both these factors. What will be the flower colour of the offsprings of the following crosses, in which genotypes of parents are given;a) A white flowered plant crossed with a purple produces offspring, of which three-eighth are purple and five-eighth white.arrow_forwardTwo pure-breeding strains of flies are mated, and the F1 are intercrossed. The first strain has curled wings and black bodies. The second strain has straight wings and brown bodies. The F2 progeny are 271 straight wings with brown bodies, 31 curled wings with black bodies, 94 curled wings with brown bodies and 90 straight wings with black bodies. If the F1 were backcrossed to the straight, wing brown bodied parent, what phenotypes would be produced among the progeny? What would be the proportion of each phenotype?arrow_forward
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