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https://imgur.com/zy4kV0n Particularly about question 2, is Tt a gene and Dd a gene for warty,dull fruit? So we got two genes on each chromosome right? And for smooth, glossy we get tt and dd. Is their a simple way to approach this question? What we did in class is that we arrived with TD/td td/td and TD/td once more to be 92% nonrecombinent and that to get a warty, glossy fruit we are looking for a tD which is not found in nonrecombinents but only in recombinents and since recombinents are 50% between the two gametes that means 8%/2 = 4% * 300 = around 12 tD progeny. Did I do the TD/td td/td and TD/td once more to be 92% nonrecombinent correct? The lecture slide shows this instead:
https://imgur.com/pUmS75v I am not sure how the 92% td/td and TD/td are being shown like this.
T and D correspond to two separate gene that are in close proximity to each other.
T has two alleles, T and t
D also has two alleles, D and d
Every organism at conception acquires a combination of two T's and two D's.
When the organism is ready to mate, their sex cells will have just one T and one D, and the allele depends on the parent. For example, if you have:
TTDD
Your sperm will be
......T...T
D...TD...TD
D...TD...TD
All are
TDLike I said, depending on YOUR allele combination, your sex cell will reflect that.
For question 4: Whats a 3 gene triple heterozygote? Does that mean ABC/abc is actually AaBbCc which would qualify as triple heterozygote? Then how would I go about to make chromosomes have double and paired, that means now I have 4 chromosomes? So would it look like this?
When you cross a AABBCC with a aabbcc, you get a triple heterozygote.
Much the same way if you were to cross AABB with aabb. All offspring would be AaBb.
Keep in mind that these proportions are true if the genes are
unlinked - either separated far away from each other on the same chromosome OR on different chromosomes altogether. Only in this case do they assort independently and the progeny classes are present in roughly equal proportions as you'd predict using a punnett square.
I believe for question (a), you multiply the percentages 0.2 * 0.1, which is 0.05 (or 5%). It has been a long time since I've done genetics of this kind, so my mind isn't as fresh as yours.
Perhaps I could gain more insight if you shared the lecture slide?