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Concepts of Genetics (12th Edition)
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Author: William S. Klug, Michael R. Cummings, Charlotte A. Spencer, Michael A. Palladino, Darrell Killian
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 4, Problem 10PDQ
In chickens, a condition referred to as “creeper” exists whereby the bird has very short legs and wings and appears to be creeping when it walks. If creepers are bred to normal chickens, one-half of the offspring are normal and one-half are creepers. Creepers never breed true. If bred together, they yield two-thirds creepers and one-third normal. Propose an explanation for the inheritance of this condition.
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In chickens, a condition referred to as “creeper” exists whereby the bird has very short legs and wings, and appears to be creeping when it walks. If creepers are bred to normal chickens, one-half of the offspring are normal and one-half are creepers. Creepers never breed true. If bred together, they yield two thirds creepers and one-third normal. Propose an explanation for the inheritance of this condition.
Another type of monohybrid inheritance involves the expression of both phenotypes in the heterozygous situation. This is called codominance. One of the best-known examples of codominance occurs in the blue Andalusian chicken. "Blue" birds are heterozygous (BW) and result from the mating between a black bird (BB) and a white bird (WW). Blue birds do not really have blue feathers, instead having a mixture of black and white feathers that reflects light to appear blue. Thus, the "blue" coloration is not a consequence of blending of the pigments (after all, the mix is not gray) but rather the result of both colors existing on the same bird. That is both phenotypes occur on the same individual.
a. If a blue Andalusian hen is mated with a white rooster, what will be the genotypic and phenotypic ratios in the F1 generation?
Genotypic ratio-
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b. List the parental genotypes of crosses that could produce at least some:
White offspring-
Black offspring
In oats, the color of the chaff is determined by a two-gene interaction. When a true-breeding black chaff plant was crossed to a truebreeding white chaff plant, the F1 generation was composed of allblack chaff plants. When the F1 offspring were crossed to eachother, the ratio produced was 12 black to 3 gray to 1 white. First,construct a Punnett square that accounts for this pattern of inheritance. Which genotypes produce the gray chaff phenotype? Second,at the level of protein function, how would you explain this type ofinheritance?
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Concepts of Genetics (12th Edition)
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