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12 years ago
I am asked to do a trihybrid cross branch diagram of a tall, purple flowered pea plant with round seeds TtPpRr ... with a tall, white flowered pea plant with wrinkled seeds Ttpprr.


So after I completed my diagram I get:
1/4 TT
1/2 Tt
1/4 tt

1/2 Pp
1/2 pp

1/2 Rr
1/2 rr


giving me the offspring and the fraction:
TTPpRr...............(1/4)(1/2)(1/2)= 1/16
TTPprr................(1/4)(1/2)(1/2)= 1/16
TTppRr...............(1/4)(1/2)(1/2)= 1/16
TTpprr................(1/4)(1/2)(1/2)= 1/16
TtPpRr................(1/2)(1/2)(1/2)= 1/8
TtPprr.................(1/2)(1/2)(1/2)= 1/8
TtppRr................(1/2)(1/2)(1/2)= 1/8
Ttpprr.................(1/2)(1/2)(1/2)= 1/8
ttPpRr................(1/4)(1/2)(1/2)= 1/16
ttPprr.................(1/4)(1/2)(1/2)= 1/16
ttppRr................(1/4)(1/2)(1/2)= 1/16
ttpprr.................(1/4)(1/2)(1/2)= 1/16



So the question is what is fraction of progeny?

I guess I'm confused because I don't know whether to add up the similar types and consider it some number out of 12 or if I simply times the fractions together of the like genotypes to get the fractions of 1/16 or 1/8...

So for:
tall purple and round I'll either have 2/12 or (1/16)(1/16)=(1/8) ... etc.
tall white and round
tall purple and wrinkled
tall white and wrinkled
short purple and round
short purple and wrinkled
short white and round
short white and wrinkled
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12 years ago
How you deal with it will totally depend on the specific question. If the question is "What fraction of progeny exhibit each possible combination of phenotypes?", then you basically add up everything that is the same. You can save yourself some work, though, by doing the calculations a little differently.

As you did, just look at each trait. For the height, you have Tt X Tt. In terms of phenotypes of offspring, 3/4 will be tall (T_) and 1/4 will be short (tt). The other two traits are as you have them. So, I would have:

Tall 3/4
short 1/4

Purple 1/2
white 1/2

round 1/2
wrinkled 1/2

To figure the proportion of offspring of each phenotype just multiply the individual probabilities together:
tall purple and round: 3/4 X 1/2 X 1/2 = 3/16
tall white and round: 3/4 X 1/2 X 1/2 = 3/16
tall purple and wrinkled: 3/4 X 1/2 X 1/2 = 3/16
tall white and wrinkled: 3/4 X 1/2 X 1/2 = 3/16
short purple and round: 1/4 X 1/2 X 1/2 = 1/16
short purple and wrinkled: 1/4 X 1/2 X 1/2 = 1/16
short white and round: 1/4 X 1/2 X 1/2 = 1/16
short white and wrinkled: 1/4 X 1/2 X 1/2 = 1/16

Hope this helps...
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