HMB265H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Null Hypothesis, Mendelian Inheritance, Genetic Linkage

ANSWER ALL the PARTS you can

PART1 Alleles are considered linked if recombination is less than 50% in:

a) a Px P Fl cross

b) an F1 x F1F2 cross

c) an F2 x F2F3 cross

d) an Fl x homozygous recessive cross

e) any F2 progeny x homozygous recessive cross 1.

PART2 If two loci A/a B/b are 9 map units apart, and an Ab/aB individual is testcrossed,

a) There will be 9% AB individuals

b)There will be 91% Ab individuals

c) There will be 4.5% ab individuals

d) There will be 91% recombination individuals

If two genes a and b show 50% recombination genes a and c show 35% recombination, and genes b and show 32% recombination, then

a) Genes a and b are on the same chromosome, and 50 m.u. apart

b) Genes a and b are on different chromosomes

c)Genes a and b are on the same chromosome, and 67 map units apart

d) One cannot tell if genes a and b are on the same or different chromosomes from given data.

PART4 If two genes a and b are 8.3 m.u. a part, one expects to find

a) 8.3% recombinant gametes from a double heterozygous parent

b) 91.7% recombinant gametes from a double heterozygous parent

c) A chiasma between the a and b loci in 8.3% of the meiosis

d) A chiasma between the a and b loci in 91.7% of the meiosis.

PART5 Map distances are most accurate when genes are closely linked because as genes become further apart,

a) They always show independent assortment

b)The chance of multiple crossovers increases

c) They no longer recombine

d) There is chiasma interference

PART6 In a three-point testcross, the most frequent classes of progeny were ABc and abC. The less frequent classes of progeny were AbC and aBc. Which gene is in the middle?

a) Aa

b) B/b

c)C/c

d) It is not possible to tell from just these data

PART7 In a three-point testcross with 100 progeny, there were 16 single crossovers between genes A and B, 29 single crossovers between genes B and C, and 4 double crossovers. The correct gene order was determined to be A-B-C. What is the map distance between A and B?

a) 20%

b) 0.2 m.u

c) 20 m.u.

d) 16 m.u.

e) 29 m.u.

f) 16%

You are a plant geneticist at the Tomato Genetics Resource Center at the University of California-Davis. You are studying three genes, which you know are on chromosome 3 of the tomato: R, S, and F.

Each gene has two alleles:

R causes red flesh; r causes yellow flesh.
S causes smooth skin; s causes fuzzy skin.
F causes round shape; f causes oblate shape.

You mate a tomato plant with red flesh, smooth skin, and oblate shape with a tomato with yellow flesh, fuzzy skin, and round shape. All of the F1 offspring have red flesh, smooth skin, and round shape. You conduct a test cross and mate F1 plants with plants possessing the recessive traits (yellow flesh, fuzzy skin, and oblate shape).
You count and classify the following offspring of the test cross:

Using the data listed above, construct a gene map between the genes R, S, and F. Calculate map unit values between all genes, and draw a diagram of the relationship between the genes.

1.) What is the distance between R and F in map units?

2.) Explain why, in general, the map distance between the two most distant genes is less than the sum of the distances between the closer pairs of genes.

3.) According to your map, which classes correspond to double-crossover events?

4.) If you have not so already, calculate the corrected map distance between the two most distant genes.

5.) Calculate the predicted number of double-crossover events. How does this compare to the observed number?

Please show detailed work. Thanks in advance.

16. Syntenic genes can assort independently when

A) they are very close together on a chromosome.

B) they are located on different chromosomes.

C) crossing over occurs rarely between the genes.

D) they are far apart on a chromosome and crossing over occurs frequently between the genes.

E) they are far apart on a chromosome and crossing over occurs very rarely between the genes.

17. The alleles of linked genes tend to

A) segregate together more often than expected by random assortment

B) assort independently.

C) be mutated more often than unlinked genes.

D) experience a higher rate of crossing over.

E) assort independently and show a higher rate of crossing over.

18. If you know that the frequency of recombination between genes X and Y is 34% and between X and Z is 25%, can you predict the order of the three genes?

A) Yes; the order is X-Z-Y.

B) Yes; the order is X-Y-Z.

C) Yes; the order is Z-X-Y.

D) No; based on this data alone, the order could be Z-Y-X or X-Y-Z.

E) No; based on this data alone, the order could be X-Z-Y or Z-X-Y.

Question 19 - 20. You have performed the following dihybrid cross in Drosophila using the black body color (b) and vestigial wing (vg) mutations. The b+ (grey body) and vg+ (normal wing) are dominant wild type alleles. These genes are autosomal.

Female ♀ b+ vg+/b vg × male ♂ b vg/b vg

Progeny:

Phenotype # of Progeny

Grey body normal wing 965

Black body vestigial wing 944

Grey body vestigial wing 208

Black body normal wing 195

19. Assuming linkage between black and vestigial, the estimated recombination frequency would be:

0.17

0.09

0.82

1.00

0.50

20. What key test could you use to determine whether the observed offspring frequencies deviate from those expected by chance alone?

A) Pascal's triangle

B) The product rule

C) The Chi-square (χ²) test

D) The law of random assortment

E) The sum rule

21. In a genome wide association study (GWAS) designed to map the gene(s) that control height you divide subjects into a group of 1000 who are all more than seven feet tall and a control group of 1000 people of average height. You find the following associations between two genetic markers and the height trait:

What is your best guess for which marker is more closely linked to a gene that influences height?

A) Marker 1

B) Marker 2

22. Two pure breeding parents produce red and white flowers. They are crossed and the F1 produces pink flowers. When the F1 are selfed to produce the F2, nine distinct classes of pigmentation are present among F2 individuals. What is your best guess of the minimum number of genes that underlie flower pigmentation in this species?

A. 2

B. 3

C. 4

D. 5

E. 6

23. In a quantitative genetic experiment you identify two genes that confer bands of color on the back of a fly. At each gene, a dominant allele causes one band of color. If flies that are heterozygous at both loci are crossed, what ratio of offspring do you expect in each phenotype (i.e., number of color bands) class? (answer options are given from lowest to highest band number)

A) 1:1:1:1:1

B) 1:2:2:2:1

C) 1:4:6:4:1

D) 4:4:4:4:4