Genetics: From Genes to Genomes
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ISBN: 9781259700903
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 46P
This problem illustrates why classical geneticists in the days before DNA analysis usually needed to work with traits showing complete penetrance. Consider the sweet peas shown in Fig. 3.15, where the A– B– genotypic class normally produces purple flowers and all other genotypic classes have white flowers.
| a. | If the parental generation is
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| b. | Suppose now that only 75% of A– B– individuals have purple flowers (that is, the penetrance of this trait is 75%). What phenotypic ratio do you now expect among the F2 plants? |
| c. | In doing these types of crosses, what kinds of results (other than an unexpected F ratio) might suggest that penetrance of the purple |
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