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 3, Problem 34P
A student whose hobby was fishing pulled a very unusual carp out of Cayuga Lake: It had no scales on its body. She decided to investigate whether this strange nude phenotype had a genetic basis. She therefore obtained some inbred carp that were pure-breeding for the wild-type scale phenotype (body covered with scales in a regular pattern) and crossed them with her nude fish. To her surprise, the F1 progeny consisted of a 1:1 ratio of wild-type fish and fish with a single linear row of scales on each side.
a. | Can a single gene with two alleles account for this result? Why or why not? |
b. | To follow up on the first cross, the student allowed the linear fish from the F1 generation to mate with each other. The progeny of this cross consisted of fish with four |
c. | In parallel, the student allowed the phenotypically wild-type fish from the F1 generation to mate with each other and observed, among their progeny, wild-type and scattered carp in a ratio of 3:1. How many genes with how many alleles appear to determine the difference between wild-type and scattered carp? |
d. | The student confirmed the conclusions of (c) by crossing those scattered carp with her pure breeding wild-type stock. Diagram the genotypes and phenotypes of the parental, F1, and F2 generations for this cross and indicate the ratios observed. |
e. | The student attempted to generate a true-breeding nude stock of fish by inbreeding. However, she found that this was impossible. Every time she crossed two nude fish, she found nude and scattered fish in the progeny, in a 2:1 ratio. (The scattered fish from these crosses bred true.) Diagram the phenotypes and genotypes of this gene in a nude × nude cross and explain the altered Mendelian ratio. |
f. | The student now felt she could explain all of her results. Diagram the genotypes in the linear × linear cross performed by the student in (b). Show the genotypes of the four phenotypes observed among the progeny and explain the 6:3:2:1 ratio. |
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A student whose hobby is fishing pulled a carp out of Cayuga Lake that was very unusual: it had no scales on its body.
She decided to investigate whether this strange “nude” phenotype had a genetic basis. She obtained some inbred carp that were pure-breeding for the wild-type scale pattern in which the fish had scales covering their body.
She crosses these wild-type fish with her nude fish. To her surprise, the F1 progeny were wild-type fish and fish with a single, linear row of scales on the sides of their body (i.e. “linear). The ratio of these progeny was 2:1.
She then crosses some of her F1 fish and obtains four phenotypes: wildtype, linear, nude and a new phenotype in which the fish had a few scales scattered over their body (i.e. “scattered”). The ratio of these offspring was 6:3:2:1.
In the space below - answer the following questions: (use the letters S/s for scale production and L/l for scale pattern)
How many genes are involved in producing scales on these fish? - answer:…
A student whose hobby was fishing pulled a very unusual carp out of Cayuga Lake: It had no scales on itsbody. She decided to investigate whether this strangenude phenotype had a genetic basis. She therefore obtained some inbred carp that were pure-breeding forthe wild-type scale phenotype (body covered withscales in a regular pattern) and crossed them with hernude fish. To her surprise, the F1 progeny consistedof a 1:1 ratio of wild-type fish and fish with a singlelinear row of scales on each side.a. Can a single gene with two alleles account for thisresult? Why or why not?b. To follow up on the first cross, the student allowedthe linear fish from the F1 generation to mate witheach other. The progeny of this cross consisted offish with four phenotypes: linear, wild type, nude,and scattered (the latter had a few scales scattered irregularly on the body). The ratio of these phenotypeswas 6:3:2:1, respectively. How many genes appear tobe involved in determining these phenotypes?c. In…
In Border Collies, black coat (B) is dominant to red coat (b). A breeder has a black male that has won numerous awards.T he breeder would like to use the dog for breeding if he is purebred (BB). To learn this information, she testcrosses him with a red female (bb).
a) If the black male is BB, what kind of gamete (sperm) can he produce?
b) If the red female is bb, what kind of gamete (eggs) can she produce?
c) If the black male is Bb, what kind(s) of gametes (sperm) can he produce?
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Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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