Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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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 21P
Semisterility in corn, as seen by unfilled ears with gaps due to abortion of approximately half the ovules, is an indication that the strain is a translocation heterozygote. The chromosomes involved in the translocation can be identified by crossing the translocation heterozygote to a strain homozygous recessive for a gene on the chromosome being tested. The ratio of
| a. | What types of progeny (fertile or semisterile, green or yellow-green) would you predict from the backcross of the F1 to the homozygous yg mutant if the gene was not on one of the two chromosomes involved in the translocation? |
| b. | What types of progeny (fertile or semisterile, green or yellow-green) would you predict from the backcross of the F1 to the homozygous mutant if the yg gene is on one of the two chromosomes involved in the translocation? |
| c. | If the yg gene is located on one of the chromosomes involved in the translocation, a few fertile, green progeny and a few semisterile, yellow-green progeny are produced. How could these relatively rare progeny classes arise? What genetic distance could you determine from the frequency of these rare progeny? |
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