Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
6th Edition
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 13, Problem 11P

The recessive, X-linked z1 mutation of the Drosophila gene zeste (z) can produce a yellow (zeste) eye color only in flies that have two or more copies of the wild-type white (w) gene. Using this property, tandem duplications of the w+ gene called w+R were identified. Males with the genotype y+ z1 w+R+spl / Y thus have zeste eyes. These males were crossed to females with the genotype y z1 w+R+ spl / y+ z1 w+R spl+ . (These four genes are closely linked on the X chromosome, in the order given in the genotype, with the centromere to the right of all these genes: y = yellow bodies; y+ = tan bodies; spl = split bristles; spl+ = normal bristles.) Out of 81,540 male progeny of these females, the following exceptions were found:

Class A 2430 yellow bodies, zeste eyes, wild-type bristles

Class B 2394 tan bodies, zeste eyes, split bristles

Class C 23 yellow bodies, wild-type eyes, wild-type bristles

Class D 22 tan bodies, wild-type eyes, split bristles

a. What were the phenotypes of the remainder of the 81,540 males from the first cross?
b. What events gave rise to progeny of classes A and B?
c. What events gave rise to progeny of classes C and D?
d. On the basis of these experiments, what is the genetic distance between y and spl?

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