Biology 2581B Chapter 5: Lecture 5 Readings.docx

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Dominance is not always complete: can be situations where neither allele of a gene is completely dominant, crosses between true breeding strains can produce hybrids with phenotypes that differ from both parents. Note: in cases of incomplete dominance or codominance, mating of f1 hybrids produces an f2 generation with a 1:2:1 phenotypic ratio due to that, heterozygotes have a phenotype different from that of either homozygote. A gene may have more than two alleles: for many traits, there are more than 2 alternatives. People will blood type ab are universal recipient make neither anti-a nor anti-b antibodies, which, if present, would target the surface molecules of incoming blood cells: o antibodies against a and b. People with blood type o are universal donors these antibodies cause coagulation of cells displaying the foreign molecules - red blood cells carry no surface molecules that will stimulate an antibody attack. A gene for seed coat pattern has 5 alleles: dominance series recessive.

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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

11. You suspect that two genes interact with one another to determine the product of a pathway you are studying. You cross two pure breeding plantsâone with white flowers and one with pinkâto make F1 individuals that have blue flowers. You cross the F1 generation and observe the following numbers of individuals with different phenotypes: Number of individuals Phenotype 91 Blue 30 Pink 39 White Which pathway best explains these results? (Note that arrows indicate enzymatic reactions carried out by products of genes 1 and 2. Assume that buildup of metabolites will determine flower color.)

Question 12 and 13: Consider the biochemical pathway presented below. This pathway determines pigment production in pea flowers. (Note: gene products are required for each reaction to proceed.)

12. Do you expect that genes A and B will interact with one another?

A. Yes B. No C. Insufficient information to determine

13. What phenotype ratio would you expect in offspring produced by crossing AaBb parents?

A. 9:3:3:1 (blue : green : yellow : white) B. 9:3:4 (blue : green : white) C. 9:7 (blue : white) D. 15:1 (blue : white)

14. How can haplosufficiency explain dominance of an allele that codes for a functional protein over a null (loss of function) allele?

A) a single functional copy of the gene produces sufficient gene product for normal biological function B) a single functional copy of the gene produces insufficient gene product for normal biological function C) the null allele produces a product that interferes with proper function of the normal allele D) the null allele produces a product that does not interfere with proper function of the normal allele E) the null allele rapidly mutates to reacquire normal functionality

15. In a plant species with genes A and B, you have isolated recessive mutant alleles at each locus, which you call a and b. You would like to know whether these two genes are linked. To test this hypothesis, you obtain an individual that is heterozygous at both genes (AB/ab) and perform a test cross. Which results would be most consistent with these loci being tightly linked? (Results are counts of the numbers of offspring from the testcross.)

A. Ab/ab 390 aB/ab 410 AB/ab 350 ab/ab 420

B. Ab/ab 80 aB/ab 73 AB/ab 760 ab/ab 754

C. Ab/ab 700 aB/ab 695 AB/ab 56 ab/ab 59

D. Ab/ab 400 aB/ab 65 AB/ab 50 ab/ab 659

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