Genetics: Analysis and Principles
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ISBN: 9781259616020
Author: Robert J. Brooker Professor Dr.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 28, Problem 3EQ
You conduct an RFLP analysis of head weight in one strain of cabbage; you determine that seven QTLs affect this trait. In another strain of cabbage, you find that only four QTLs affect this trait. Note that both strains of cabbage are from the same species, although they may have been subjected to different degrees of inbreeding. Explain how one strain can have seven QTLs and another strain four QTLs for exactly the same trait. Is the second strain missing three genes?
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