ND STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY LOOSELEAF GENETICS: FROM GENES TO GENOMES
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ISBN: 9781260406092
Author: HARTWELL, Leland, HOOD, Leroy, Goldberg, Michael
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education/stony Brook University
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Chapter 7, Problem 41P
In each of the following cross schemes, two true-breeding plant strains are crossed to make F1 plants, all of which have purple flowers. The F1 plants are then self-fertilized to produce F2 progeny as shown here.
a. | For each cross, explain the inheritance of flower color. |
b. | For each cross, show a possible biochemical pathway that could explain the data. |
c. | Which of these crosses is compatible with an underlying biochemical pathway involving only a single step that is catalyzed by an enzyme with two dissimilar subunits, both of which are required for enzyme activity? |
d. | For each of the four crosses, what would you expect in the F1 and F2 generations if all relevant genes were tightly linked? |
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