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 7P
The two graphs that follow represent genomic sequencing data for two fruit flies with scarlet-colored eyes. Each fly is a heterozygote for a chromosome 3 with normal gene order and a recessive scarlet (st) mutation, and a rearranged chromosome 3; the rearrangements are different in the two flies. Each circle on the graph indicates the number of sequence reads (y coordinate) obtained for a 100 bp sequence starting at the position on chromosome 3 that is shown by the x coordinate.
| a. | What is the nature of the rearranged chromosome in each fly? What are the approximate locations of the breakpoints defining these rearrangements? How could you find the exact |
| b. | Can you conclude that at least part of the st gene lies in a particular region of chromosome 3? If so, give the coordinates of that region defined as precisely as possible. |
| c. | Is it possible that one or more protein-coding exons of the st gene lie outside of the region you defined in part (b)? Explain. |
| d. | Does your ability to map the st gene on the basis of these data reflect a recombination experiment or a complementation experiment? |
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