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In pigs, coat color may be sandy, red, or white. A geneticist spent several years mating true-breeding pigs of all different color combinations, even obtaining true-breeding lines from different parts of the country. For crosses 1 and 4 in the following table, she encountered a major problem: her computer crashed and she lost the F2 data. She nevertheless persevered and, using the limited data shown here, was able to predict the mode of inheritance and the number of genes involved, as well as to assign genotypes to each coat color. Attempt to duplicate her analysis, based on the available data generated from the crosses shown.
Cross | P1 | F1 | F2 |
1 | sandy
|
All red | Data lost |
2 | red
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All red | 3/4 red: 1/4 sandy |
3 | sandy
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All sandy | 3/4 sandy: 1/4 white |
4 | white
|
All red | Data lost |
When you have formulated a hypothesis to explain the mode of inheritance and assigned genotypes to the respective coat colors, predict the outcomes of the F2 generations where the data were lost.
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