BMS2042 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pleiotropy, Wild Type, Thalassemia

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Not always simple, transmission of many traits don"t produce mendelian ratios: Extensions to mendel, the laws still apply but different ratios. For non mendelian inheritance, mendel"s laws are not followed. Mendel saw complete dominance in heterozygote only one allele is expressed. Due to 50% gene product being enough for normal phenotype. Sometimes one allele not completely dominant over the other: Incomplete dominance: heterozygote has phenotype intermediate between two homozygotes. Co-dominance heterozygote exhibits both the phenotypes of the two homozygotes. For both of these you see 1:2:1 f2 phenotypic ratio (i. e. not mendelian 3:1) (from klug) In this example, the genotype crcw is not enough for a red phenotype or white phenotype and so this is an incomplete dominance pattern where the f1 generation is intermediate of the two colours producing pink. If you then cross the two pink heterozygous genotypes, you will get a genotypic and phenotypic ratio in f2 of 1:2:1.

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These all relate to exceptions to the inheritance patterns encountered by Mendel.â

Why do multiple and lethal alleles often result in modifications of the classic Mendelian monohybrid and dihybrid ratios?

Select the four correct statements.

-When an essential gene is mutated, it can result in a lethal phenotype. There are no classic Mendelian monohybrid and dihybrid ratios.

-In the case of codominance, heterozygotes produce gene products from both alleles of a gene. Classic Mendelian monohybrid and dihybrid ratios are modified by codominance.

-In the case of incomplete dominance, the phenotype of the heterozygote is distinct from and often intermediate to the phenotypes of homozygous individuals. Classic Mendelian monohybrid and dihybrid ratios are modified by incomplete dominance.

-Genes exist in a large number of allelic versions and a diploid organism has two homologous gene loci that may be occupied by different alleles of the same gene. This can result in many different phenotypes for traits, which may not follow typical Mendelian ratios.

-When an essential gene is mutated, it can result in a lethal phenotype. This results in a modification of classic Mendelian ratios.

-The phenotype of the heterozygous genotype is distinct from and often intermediate to the phenotypes of the homozygous genotypes. The joint expression of both alleles in a heterozygote is called codominance. There are no classic Mendelian monohybrid and dihybrid ratios.

-Genes exist in a large number of allelic versions, but in a diploid organism, only one allele of the gene can occupy one homologous gene loci. Classic Mendelian inheritance cannot explain this phenomenon.

-Each gene produces a unique gene product. The effect of one allele in a heterozygote completely masks the effect of the other. Classic Mendelian genetics cannot explain this phenomenon.

Canaries: Green (wild-type) Pied phenotype Yellow type

Canaries are popular pets and easy to breed in captivity. Additionally, they display great phenotypic diversity, which allows you to do some interesting genetic investigations with them.

When you take a canary from a true-breeding green strain and cross it with a canary from a true-breeding yellow strain, all offspring display the pied phenotype. Based on this you suspect that this color variation is inherited by a gene with a co-dominant inheritance pattern (showing both phenotypic traits in hybrid phenotypes).

You decide to test this hypothesis. To do so, you take pairs of your hybrid F1 individuals (of pied phenotype), and cross them to produce an F2 generation.

After many dozens of crosses and hundreds of offspring, you arrive at the peculiar ratio of:

3/16 green : 6/16 pied : 7/16 yellow

Which of the following hypotheses are consistent with these data? (Note that not all of these hypotheses are mutually exclusive. Assume that the two genes are independently assorting)

Hint: This problem is very hard to work from the given ratios to what is happening genetically. It is easier to "work backwards" and start with each choice below, and see if you can obtain all or important aspects of the results of your cross when making the assumption that the answer choice is correct.

Select all that apply:

Select one or more:

a. At least one of the genes involved is sex linked.

b. One gene controls production of darker pigment (melanin which appears green when mixed with yellow). A second gene acts as a patterning gene with one allele causing expression and the other non-expression of melanin and when in the heterozygous condition each allele controls melanin expression on different parts of the body so long as the bird's genotype of the first gene allows for the production of melanin.

c. this is a single-gene trait with co-dominance

d. one of the two genes involved displays complete dominance, while the other displays co-dominance.

e. the genes involved are epistatically interacting

f. more than one gene is involved

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