Genetic Analysis: An Integrated Approach (3rd Edition)
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Author: Mark F. Sanders, John L. Bowman
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Chapter 3, Problem 29P
A wild-type Drosophila male and female are crossed, producing 324 female progeny and 161 male progeny. All their progeny are wild type.
a. Propose a genetic hypothesis to explain these data.
b. Design an experiment that will test your hypothesis, using the wild-type progeny identified above. Describe the results you expect if your hypothesis is true.
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Some sweet-pea plants have purple flowers and others have white flowers. A homozygous variety of sweet pea that has purple flowers is crossed with a homozygous variety that has white flowers. All the F1 have purple flowers. When these F1 self-fertilize, the F2 appear in a ratio of 916 purple to 716 white. a. Give genotypes for the purple and white flowers in these crosses. b. Draw a hypothetical biochemical pathway to explain the production of purple and white flowers in sweet peas
Consider the first category of test-cross offspring shown in figure 8.2 (+b, LS). Consider also that the parents of the heterozygous female flies in the test cross had the following genotypes: bb, SS, and +, LL.
A. What would be the physical phenotype of these flies?
B. If PC was conducted with the DNA of one of these flies using the primers for the molecular marker, what would be the appearance of the bands on an electrophoresis gel with the PC products?
C. If the gene for black body and the locus for the molecular marker (L long or S short) were unlinked, what proportion of the test-cross progeny would be black flies that are heterozygous for the molecular marker? What proportion would be flies with normal body color, which are homozygous for one form of the molecular marker?
D. If the gene for black body and the locus for the molecular marker were linked, how would the proportion of flies be different?
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Leg length - The wild-type and mutant alleles for leg length are incomplete dominant relative to each other.
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Genetic Analysis: An Integrated Approach (3rd Edition)
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3. In a test of his chromosome theory of...Ch. 3 - Cohesion between sister chromatids, as well as...Ch. 3 - 5. The diploid number of the hypothetical animal...Ch. 3 - 6. An organism has alleles R1 and R2 on one pair...Ch. 3 - Explain how the behavior of homologous chromosomes...Ch. 3 - 8. Suppose crossover occurs between the homologous...Ch. 3 -
9. Alleles A and a are on one pair of autosomes,...Ch. 3 - Prob. 10P
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14. A wild-type male and a wild-type female...Ch. 3 - 15. A woman with severe discoloration of her tooth...Ch. 3 - 16. In a large metropolitan hospital, cells from...Ch. 3 - In cats, tortoiseshell coat color appears in...Ch. 3 - 18. The gene causing Coffin–Lowry syndrome (OMIM...Ch. 3 - 19. Four eye-color mutants in Drosophila—apricot,...Ch. 3 - 20. For each pedigree shown,
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