Campbell Biology in Focus
Campbell Biology in Focus
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ISBN: 9780134710679
Author: Lisa A. Urry, Michael L. Cain, Steven A. Wasserman, Peter V. Minorsky, Rebecca Orr
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 11, Problem 1TYU

DRAW IT Two pea plants heterozygous for the characters of pod color and pod shape are crossed. Draw a Punnett square to determine the phenotypic ratios of the offspring.

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To draw:

The Punnett square to determine the phenotypic ratios of the offspring.

Introduction:

Punnett square is a tabular representation of the cross between the two species. It helps in determining the outcome of a particular cross and can help in estimating the genotypic as well as the phenotypic ratio.

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Pictorial representation: Punnett square depicting the dihybrid cross between the two pea plants are as follows:

Parental traits: Pod Colour: Dominant yellow (Y); recessive green (y)

        Pod Shape: Dominant round (R); recessive wrinkled (r)

Campbell Biology in Focus, Chapter 11, Problem 1TYU

Fig.: 1 Punnett square depicting the dihybrid cross between the two pea plants of different characters.

The Punnett square is the diagrammatic representation to predict the outcome (phenotype and genotype) of the breeding experiment. In the given cross, pea plants that have two distinct characters are chosen, where one has round and yellow pods and the other one has wrinkled and green pods.

The cross provides a phenotypic ratio of 9:3:3:1 in a total of 16 outcomes. This means that there will be 4 different types of outcomes, namely round and yellow, round and green, wrinkled and yellow, and wrinkled and green. The genotypic ratio of the cross is 1:2:1:2:4:2:1:2:1, which means that there are 9 different types of genotype in this dihybrid cross.

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Figure shows a dihybrid cross but it can be analyzed as a monohybrid cross of just smooth seed coat (S) and wrinkled seed coat (s) with complete dominance that should show a 1:2:1 ratio. Examine Figure and see if you can find these results. Likewise, it can be analyzed as a monohybrid cross of yellow seed coat versus green. Can you find these in the expected ratio?
If a plant is tall, has round seeds and purple flowers, with the genotype of TTRREE is crossed with a plant that is short and has wrinkle seeds and white flowers with the genotype ttrree. What would be the offspring of their F1 generation and F2 generation like? Form a Punnett square and write the phenotypic ratio?
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