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To determine: The number of genes involved in the inheritance of color pattern.
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To explain: The reason for the occurrence of 9:6:1 ratio in the F2 generation.
Introduction: The dominant trait is expressed both in homozygous and heterozygous conditions, but a recessive allele is expressed only in homozygous condition, as the dominant allele can mask the trait produced by a recessive allele.
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- Figure 8.10 In pea plants, purple flowers (P) are dominant to white (p), and yellow peas (Y) are dominant to green (y). What are the possible genotypes and phenotypes for a cross between PpYY and ppYy pea plants? How many squares would you need to complete a Punnett square analysis of this cross?arrow_forwardIn a cross involving polygenic inheritance, three (3) gene pairs control plant height. The shortest andtallest plants are 12 cm and 24 cm, respectively. What height should all F1s display if the shortest andtallest plants were crossed, assuming environmental factors are the same?arrow_forwardIn a plant, a tall variety was crossed with a dwarf variety. All F1 plants were tall. When F1 * F1 plants were interbred, 9/16 of the F2 were tall and 7/16 were dwarf. (a) Explain the inheritance of height by indicating the number of gene pairs involved and by designating which genotypes yield tall and which yield dwarf. (Use dashes where appropriate.) (b) What proportion of the F2 plants will be true breeding if selffertilized? List these genotypes.arrow_forward
- A type of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) produces fruit in three possible colors: red, green, and orange. You cross a true-breeding orange-fruited plant with a true-breeding green-fruited plant, and all the F1 offspring are red. You intercross the red F1s, and the resulting F2 generation consists of 108 red-, 40 orange-, and 44 green-fruited plants. 1) What type of epistasis is acting (dominant, recessive, duplicate dominant, or duplicate recessive)? 2) Assign the phenotypes to a modified 9:3:3:1 ratio. (Do not just calculate the actual ratio of the phenotypes.) Red : _____Orange : _____Green: _____arrow_forwardTwo genes of a flower, one controlling blue (B) versus white(b) petals and the other controlling round (R) versus oval (r)stamens, are linked and are 10 map units apart. You cross ahomozygous blue oval plant with a homozygous white round plant. The resulting F1 progeny are crossed with homozygouswhite oval plants, and 1,000 offspring plants are obtained.How many plants of each of the four phenotypes do youexpect?arrow_forwardIn watermelons, the green colour gene (G) is dominant over the striped colour gene (g), and round shape (R) is dominant over long shape (r). A heterozygous round green colour (GgRr) watermelon plant is crossed with another heterozygous round green colour (GgRr) plant. Determine the expected phenotypic ratio of the F1 generation.arrow_forward
- Gregor Mendel examined the inheritance of two traits in pea plants: seed coat texture and colour. Seed coat texture can be represented as S-smooth and s-wrinkled, and seed coat colour can be represented as Y-yellow and y-green. SSYY plants were crossed with ssyy plants to yield F1 pea seeds that were all smooth and all yellow. By crossing plants grown from these F1 seeds, Mendel obtained four different phenotypes of F2 seeds: • smooth and green seeds wrinkled and green seeds smooth and yellow seeds wrinkled and yellow seeds ● Use the following information to answer the next question. ● The F2 phenotypic ratio that Mendel obtained upon crossing two heterozygous smooth and yellow F1 individuals would have been: smooth and green wrinkled and green : smooth and yellow: wrinkled and yellow Record only the numeric values associated with the phenotypes. (Do not include the colons, spaces, commas, etc.)arrow_forwardAssume that smooth seed coats are dominant over rough seed coat. If two pea plants that are both Heterozygous for seed coats are crossed, what do you expect in the offspring (the f1 generation)? Specifically, what genotypes, what phenotypes, and in what ratios? (Use S for the smooth seed coat and s for the rough seed coat.) (Again, it is helpful to write out all the possible genotypes and give the phenotype for each genotype before answering the specific question.) Be careful in writing capital S and lower case.arrow_forwardIn certain cactus, prickly spines can be two-pronged or one-pronged. If a homozygous one-pronged cactus is crossed with a homozygous two-pronged cactus, the F1 generation has a mixture of spines (some are two-pronged, some are one-pronged). a. What are the genotypes of the parents and F1s?b. What mode of inheritance is exhibited? c. If the F1s were crossed, what proportion of the F2s will have genotypes like their parents?arrow_forward
- Cross a heterozygous dominant purple flowered plant to a recessive white flowered plant. What is (are) the phenotypes of the F1? And what is the phenotypic ratio?arrow_forwardA type of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) produces fruit in three possible colors: red, orange, and green. You cross a true-breeding red-fruited plant with a true-breeding green-fruited plant, and all the F1 offspring are red. You intercross the red F1s, and the resulting F2 generation consists of 61 red-, 13 orange-, and 6 green-fruited plants. a) Assign the phenotypes to a modified 9:3:3:1 ratio (do not just calculate the actual ratio of the phenotypes). Show your work.arrow_forwardMendelian ratios are modified in crosses involving autotetraploids.Assume that one plant expresses the dominant trait greenseeds and is homozygous (WWWW). This plant is crossed to onewith white seeds that is also homozygous (wwww). If only onedominant allele is sufficient to produce green seeds, predict theF1 and F2 results of such a cross. Assume that synapsis betweenchromosome pairs is random during meiosis.arrow_forward
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